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Gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students: Evidence from Sweden

Lindahl, Erica - 2007

This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school performance in Swedish, English and Mathematics. School leaving certificates assigned by the teacher is compared with results on comprehensive national tests. The analysis is based on...

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One size fits all? The effects of teacher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities on student achievement

Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2008

Teachers are increasingly being drawn from the lower parts of the general ability distribution, but it is not clear how this affects student achievement. We track the position of entering teachers in population-wide cognitive and non-cognitive ability distributions using school grades and draft...

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The apple falls increasingly far: Parent-child correlation in schooling and the growth of post-secondary education in Switzerland

Hanslin, Sandra; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2006

attainment of parents. We then decompose the overall trend into a parental background effect, a general expansion effect and a … tertiary education can be explained by the fact that the gap in participation rates between women with lowly educated parents … and women with highly educated parents has narrowed. We then investigate the role of financial constraints in explaining …

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Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior

Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - 2013

education on health behavior is the same between those with and without a learning disability, suggesting that cognition is not …

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Private expenditures for children in Austria - Variations in results applying different models

Buchegger, Reiner; Wüger, Michael - 2004

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The impact of peer personality on academic achievement

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Non, Jan Adrianus; Zölitz, Ulf - 2017

This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence of more persistent peers and more risk-averse...

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The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015

improvements in these skills are in turn a result of behavioral adjustments by teachers, students, or parents to the presence of …

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Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?

Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012

We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE),...

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Secondary school track selection of single-parent children: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Mahler, Philippe; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2005

In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of … single parenthood on children's educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. …

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Single motherhood and (un)equal educational opportunities: Evidence for Germany

Mahler, Philippe; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2005

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn … correlation between single motherhood and children's educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this …

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