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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

This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a newspaper (Trouw), rather than public interventions. Our research design exploits the substantial...

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An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labour market programmes in the 1990s

Sianesi, Barbara - 2001

The low unemployment rates traditionally enjoyed by Sweden have often been attributed to the country's extensive system …. However, unemployment grew enormously in Sweden when the country was hit by a most severe recession in the early 1990s. This … system. In fact, a labour market programme in Sweden effectively comes as a bundle of two conflicting components: it is …

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Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: Overall effectiveness and differential performance

Sianesi, Barbara - 2002

Sweden in the 1990s and trying to derive some general lessons as to which type of programme works best. The effectiveness of …

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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2008

nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a …

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

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

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2005

estimation methods from the treatment evaluation literature we separate the direct effect of textbooks from their peer effect …

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Peer effects and textbooks in primary education: Evidence from francophone sub-Saharan Africa

Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2004

estimation methods from the treatment evaluation literature we separate the direct effect of textbooks from their peer effect …

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Is there a causal effect of high school math on labor market outcomes?

Schrøter Joensen, Juanna; Skyt Nielsen, Helena - 2006

Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...

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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach

Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009

determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …

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The short-term effectiveness of a remedial mathematics course: Evidence from a UK university

Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2012

Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...

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