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Differences in the distribution of high school achievement: The role of class size and time-in-term

Corak, Miles; Lauzon, Darren - 2010

time-in-term, other school factors and student background factors. Class size and time-in-term are both important school …

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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Valuing school quality via a school choice reform

Machin, Stephen; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010

education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in line with some recent studies, we value school quality using …' choice to attend high schools to identify the relationship between house prices and school performance. We exploit a change … in school choice policy that took place in Oslo county in 1997, where the school authorities opened up the possibility …

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Electoral impacts of uncovering public school quality: Evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Firpo, Sergio; Pieri, Renan; Souza, André Portela - 2012

School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact … positively students' performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional … accountable for not improving school quality. The results show that, on average, one point increase in a 0-10 scale index from …

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The impact of "equal educational opportunity" funds: A regression discontinuity design

Ooghe, Erwin - 2011

Many countries provide extra resources to schools serving disadvantaged pupils. We exploit a discontinuity in the assignment of such personnel subsidies in Flanders to estimate the impact on cognitive outcomes via a regression discontinuity (RD) design. Because bias can be substantial in RD...

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Evaluation of the impact of the mother and infant health project in Ukraine

Nizalova, Olena Y.; Vyshnya, Maria - 2009

This paper exploits a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of the quality change in the labor and delivery services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing...

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School responsiveness to quality rankings: An empirical analysis of secondary education in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - 2010

school quality performance does respond to Trouw quality scores. Both average grades increase and the number of diplomas go …

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What Works? Interventions Aimed At Reducing Student Dropout in Higher Education

Ibsen, Kristoffer; Rosholm, Michael - 2024

High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...

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Keeping It in the Family: Student to Degree Match

Murphy, Richard J.; Silva, Pedro Luís - 2024

This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and enroll in. Using linked administrative data on the population of Portuguese applicants we create a transparent and continuous measure of student-to-degree match employing...

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Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition : A Case Study of Belarus

Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - 2004

The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the rate of return to education is low and the earnings profile by work experience flat, like they supposedly were under central-planning. However, the first available estimates of...

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