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Teacher Attrition in Charter and Public Schools

Calimeris, Lauren - 2016

This paper examines attrition and retention rates among teachers in charter and traditional public schools. This study finds that among all teachers, there is no difference in the attrition rate between charter and traditional public school teachers. Among new teachers, charter teachers are 3.39...

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Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects

Bach, Maximilian - 2019

We present evidence that the practice of holding back poorly performing students affects estimates of the impact of class size on student outcomes based on within-school variation of cohort size over time. This type of variation is commonly used to identify class size effects. We build a...

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School Age, Student Achievement and Structural Breaks

Miankhel, Adil Khan - 2022

The school building is a built environment in the physical learning environment. How it is perceived by students, teachers, leaders, parents, community and interacts with content, resources and societal progress have important implications on student outcomes. The Australian Capital Territory...

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Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Eﬀects

Bach, Maximilian; Sievert, Stephan - 2020

We show that in school systems with grade retention or redshirting, birth cohort size is negatively related to the grade-level share of students who are too old for their grade. This compositional eﬀect gives rise to an upward bias in estimates of class size eﬀects based on commonly used...

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Grades and rank : impacts of non-financial incentives on test performance

Jalava, Nina; Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Pellas, Elin - 2014

How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test … non-financial incentives play an important role in motivating highly skilled students to exert more effort. We find … reward. The motivational strengths of the non- financial incentives differ across the test score distribution, across the …

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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence

Link, Susanne - 2013

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...

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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014

Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...

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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014

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The effect of extended education on educational quality and inequality : an event study approach

Diris, Ron; Fairley, Kim - 2024

This study examines the effect of extended education on school achievement and inequality in Dutch primary schools. We apply a panel event study design using rich longitudinal data on the use of extended education and school achievement in grades 1 through 6, to estimate the causal effect of...

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Does the transition into daylight saving time affect students’ performance?

Herber, Stefanie P.; Quis, Johanna Sophie; Heineck, Guido - 2015

We use international student assessment data on more than 22,000 students from six European countries and a regression discontinuity design to investigate whether the transition into daylight saving time (DST) affects elementary students’ test performance in the week after the time change. We...

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