Showing 1 - 10 of 3,760
This paper evaluates how the July 2005 London terrorist attacks affected Muslim teenagers' education plans and … continue in full-time education. I examine panel data on educational attitudes from the "Next Steps" Survey in England and use … negatively affected the education plans of Muslims, but not those of any other major religious group. The probability of planning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496107
education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329971
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how US institutions of higher education make appreciable use of work …‐based learning options, but their attention to experiential education as a learning vehicle is relatively limited. The connection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502407
Although academic provision has become associated with professional education, knowledge is delivered through standard … classroom methodology associated with liberal arts education. Elsewhere, a "practice turn" has elevated experience as a basis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013532873
This study reports on work undertaken to develop a framework and rating scale for the assessment of process quality in terms of scaffolding in preschool settings. The aim was to develop the Early Childhood Scaffolding Scale (ECSS) for the assessment of interaction quality in different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540884
-day school are investigated. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264935
education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards … 'education for all'. The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270041
I propose a novel way of identifying peer group effects by employing a regressiondiscontinuity design that makes use of the assignment mechanism of students into classes in Brazilian primary schools. I estimate a significant negative effect for students close to the cut-off point from being in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270880
In this study, I estimate the average causal treatment effect of grade retention on several educational outcome variables, such as completion of upper secondary school, graduation grades in math and German, as well as average final grade using a data set from Germany. The analysis relies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273689
-day school are investigated. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301446