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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted … technology that is increasingly ubiquitous: school-to-parent communication technologies. Using data from a Learning Management …
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This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …
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decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …
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This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary … government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of … time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent governments. The two types of government differ in their education policies …
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Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...
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effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the … effect of education on emigration intentions does not operate through financial dissatisfaction but rather through …
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We present a theory explaining the impact of ability tracking on academic performance based on grading policies. Our model distinguishes between initial ability, which is mainly determined by parental background, and eagerness to extend knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability...
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We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey …, to obtain endogeneity-robust estimates of the effect of male education on the incidence of abusive and violent behaviour … against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing yearly data on Muslim presence in the period 711-1492 and literacy rate in 1900 for about 7500 municipalities in Spain, we estimate the local impact of the length of Muslim rule in...
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