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We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There is substantial variation in teacher and student quality within schools. Over the period spanning grades 11 and 12, being taught by a standard deviation better than average...
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We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of test scores at the higher secondary level (grade 12) in public schools in Delhi, India. Using the value added approach, we find substantial variation in teacher and student quality within schools: over the period spanning grades 11...
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This paper studies the impact of the first Italian Research Evaluation Exercise (VTR 2001-2003) on university undergraduate students' enrolment choices. A before-after estimator with differential treatment intensities is used to investigate whether subject-group higher education institutions...
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This paper examines teachers’ mobility in response to exogenous changes in the credentials of their students using data from Stockholm high schools. I explore a major admission reform that lead to the reshuffling of students between schools within the municipality of Stockholm. The results...
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power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation … in four years, and GPA. Cognitive skill measures predict as expected if entered individually in a multivariate model, but …
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power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation … in four years, and GPA. Cognitive skill measures predict as expected if entered individually in a multivariate model, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246768
While comparing students across large differences in GPA follows one's intuition that higher GPAs correlate positively … then has us jeopardize local comparability as GPA better delineates students of different ability. Given these two … characteristics in decoding GPA, we discuss the advantages of machine-learning approaches to identifying treatment in educational …
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This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
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This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...
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Sleep studies suggest that girls go to sleep earlier, are more active in the morning, and cope with sleep deprivation better than boys. We provide the first causal evidence on how gender differences in sleep cycles can help explain the gender performance gap. We exploit over 240,000...
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