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The impact of truancy on educational attainment : a bivariate ordered probit estimator with mixed effects
Buscha, Franz; Conte, Anna - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort … Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic … is that both truancy and attainment are measured as ordered responses requiring a bivariate ordered probit model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688565
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School quality beyond test scores : the role of schools in shaping educational outcomes
Loviglio, Annalisa - 2023
I study how schools impact student performance and educational attainment throughout secondary education, and show that school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276702
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School quality beyond test scores : the role of schools in shaping educational outcomes
Loviglio, Annalisa - 2023
I study how schools impact student performance and educational attainment throughout secondary education, and show that school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259211
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The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions : Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Bricker, Jesse; Cortes, Kalena E.; Rohlfs, Chris - 2011
Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation between students in the ordering of classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043028
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The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions : Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2010
Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation between students in the ordering of classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141234
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The role of specific subjects in education production functions : evidence from morning classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Cortes, Kalena E.; Bricker, Jesse; Rohlfs, Chris - 2010
Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation between students in the ordering of classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985251
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Why subsidize independent schools? : estimating the effect of a unique Canadian schooling model on educational attainment
Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - 2021
Canada is recognized as one of the top 10 countries in secondary education according to PISA results. A particularly intriguing case in this country is the large system of highly subsidized independent schools in the province of Québec where students also perform extremely well in PISA testing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501142
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Do girls really outperform boys in educational outcomes?
Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2014
The reversing achievement gap across genders observed in many countries has led to a heated debate on the persistent gap in academia and other top fields. Using Turkish administrative data and the particular institutional characteristics, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490388
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School Quality Beyond Test Scores : The Role of Schools in Shaping Educational Outcomes
Loviglio, Annalisa - 2023
I study how schools impact student performance and educational attainment throughout secondary education, and show that school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344703
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School Quality Beyond Test Scores : The Role of Schools in Shaping Educational Outcomes
Loviglio, Annalisa - 2023
I study how schools impact student performance and educational attainment throughout secondary education, and show that school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344809