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The gender gap in mathematics achievement : evidence from Italian data

Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Mendolia, Silvia; Contini, Dalit - 2016

Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to underperform with respect to boys. This paper describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy,...

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The value of private schools : evidence from Pakistan

Carneiro, Pedro; Das, Jishnu; Reis, Hugo - 2016

Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …

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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood

Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...

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Expertise and independence on governing boards : evidence from school districts

Shi, Ying; Singleton, John D. - 2019

In this paper, we study the roles of expertise and independence on governing boards in the context of education. In … particular, we examine the causal influence of professional educators elected to local school boards on education production … district-level data on education inputs and outcomes. The results reveal that educators on the school board causally increase …

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Father absence and the educational gender gap

Lundberg, Shelly - 2017

increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to …

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Schooling, nation building, and industrialization : a gellnerian approach

Hauk, Esther; Ortega, Javier - 2015

productivity, particularly for matches between masses and bourgeois. At the same time, only country-wide education ("unified … education") or the regionally dominant group can choose to implement schooling in its own region but refuse to share the costs …

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The long-term cognitive and schooling effects of childhood vaccinations in China

Oskorouchi, Hamid R.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Bloom, David E. - 2020

-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …

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Does domestic violence jeopardize the learning environment of peers within the school? : peer effects of exposure to domestic violence in urban Peru

Gutierrez, Italo A.; Molina, Oswaldo - 2020

This study builds on the findings of Carrell and Hoekstra (2010, 2018) by exploring the peer effects of domestic violence exposure over the academic attainment of secondary school students in Peru. However, we also study these peer effects over a novel set of outcomes: internalizing behaviors...

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Determinants of teacher value-added in public primary schools : evidence from administrative panel data

Tanaka, Ryūichi; Bessho, Shun-ichiro; Kawamura, Akira; … - 2020

This study estimates teacher value-added (TVA) for language arts and mathematics test scores of students in public primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman,...

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Heterogeneous effects of missing out on a place at a preferred secondary school in England

Gorman, Emma; Walker, Ian - 2020

available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the …

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