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Parental Unemployment and Adolescents' Academic Performance

Drydakis, Nick - 2023

During the Great Recession, the increase in Greece's unemployment rate was the highest in the European Union. However, there exists no multivariate study which has assessed the association between parental unemployment and adolescents' grades. The study utilised panel data from the same upper...

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Single-Sex vs. Coeducational Schooling and STEM: Comparing Australian Students with Similar University Admission Scores

Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2024

enrolled in either school type of comparable quality under different circumstances. We control for individual characteristics … school type choosing a STEM major and their weighted average marks for each year of university studies. Contrary to … expectations, we find no evidence that a single-sex high school background increases STEM participation among girls at the …

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Class size and class heterogeneity

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele; Woolston, … - 2009

We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to teaching classes. Our results suggest that a one standard...

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Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey

Berberoglu, Giray; Tansel, Aysit - 2014

other variables such as interest in and perception of academic success, high school graduation fields of study, high school … that more research on the impact of further important variables needs to be done, their view is that school seems to be an …

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The Academic Impact of Natural Disasters: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake

Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2015

This paper examines the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local university. Following this traumatic event, not only are students likely to have developed an acute stress disorder, but they have also experienced a significant disruption in their...

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Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market … and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their … academic performance and their labor market income. We leverage the fact that the composition of high school classmates (peers …

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The Educational Achievement of Pupils with Immigrant and Native Mothers: Evidence from Taiwan

Lin, Eric S.; Lu, Yu-Lung - 2015

This paper takes advantage of the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement data set to empirically evaluate whether the test score differentials between pupils with immigrant and native mothers are substantial across subjects, grades and years. Our results show that there exist test score...

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Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China

Siebert, W. Stanley; Wei, Xiangdong; Wong, Ho Lun; … - 2018

) over two school terms. We find that bi-weekly student feedbacks using our special scorecard of schoolwork and behavior …

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Rank Incentives and Social Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Dobrescu, Isabella; Faravelli, Marco; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2019

In a 1-year randomized controlled trial involving thousands of university students, we provide real-time private feedback on relative performance in a semester-long online assignment. Within this setup, our experimental design cleanly identifies the behavioral response to rank incentives (i.e.,...

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Who Gains from Active Learning in Higher Education?

Bosio, Giulio; Origo, Federica - 2019

The aim of this paper is to study whether and how teaching style (i.e., traditional vs active mode) affects academic performance of young individuals in tertiary education. We focus on entrepreneurship education as an ideal subject for experimenting alternative teaching methods. Identification...

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