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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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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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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

on student outcomes. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) public education system experienced system wide governance …

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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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The Role of Education in the Production of Health : An Empirical Analysis of Smoking Behavior

Tenn, Steven; Herman, Douglas A.; Wendling, Brett W. - 2008

We estimate the effect of education and student status on the propensity to smoke. Our estimation strategy accounts for … the endogeneity of education by "differencing out" the impact of unobserved characteristics correlated with educational … attainment. This is accomplished by exploiting education differences between similarly selected groups that are one year apart in …

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Chapter 11 Does Learning to Add up Add up? The Returns to Schooling in Aggregate Data

Pritchett, Lant - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 635-695). 2006

The theoretical, conceptual, and practical difficulties with the use of cross-national data on schooling are so severe using aggregate data for any purpose for which individual level data would do should be avoided. There are, however, three questions for which the use of cross-national data on...

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New Developments in Education Demand : International Empirical Evidences

Gonzales, Carlos Giovanni - 2010

education. The document begins with a review of the theoretical background since the appearance of human capital theory proposed … by Becker (1964), which made way to the emergence of the Economics of Education in the mid-twentieth century. The other … characteristics that influence the demand for post-compulsory education, because it is this demand for education where the person or …

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2013

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