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Author : Juan Pablo Valenzuela
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ISBN 13 : 9780542302954
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Essays in Economics of Education written by Juan Pablo Valenzuela and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana Hidalgo Saá
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ISBN 13 : 9789400301207
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Essays in Economics of Education and Training written by Diana Hidalgo Saá and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis collects four studies on the economics of education and training. The first study examines the impact on school attendance of the provision of free school uniforms to children in poor urban areas in Ecuador. Consistent with a sunk-cost effect, it finds that free school uniforms increase absenteeism from school. The second study analyzes the effects of training vouchers for low-skilled workers on their training participation, types of training, earnings and labor market mobility. Vouchers lead to more training but come with a high deadweight loss. Vouchers also seem to shift participation from more specific to more general forms of training. The third study uses data from four waves of PISA to inquire the factors that explain the substantial decline between 2003 and 2012 in math scores of 15 years-old students in the Netherlands. The key finding is that despite substantial changes in the characteristics of students and schools, most of the decline should be attributed to changes in the coefficients from a regression of math scores on characteristics. The last study reports the results from an evaluation of a pilot program in which context learning for the teaching of mathematics is replaced by a new curriculum that emphasizes concepts and mathematical thinking. It turns out that girls tend to shy away from (advanced) math when the new curriculum is offered, but that girls do not perform worse relative to boys when exposed to the new curriculum."--Samenvatting auteur.
Author : Emily P. Hoffman
Publisher : W. E. Upjohn Institute
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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education written by Emily P. Hoffman and published by W. E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Franklin G. Mixon Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595338062
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Shaping the Learning Curve written by Franklin G. Mixon Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume contains a collection of essays that reflect a broad area of economic education inquiry ranging from teaching assessment to the philosophy of the classroom. Written by economics scholars from across the nation, this volume presents recent discoveries in presentation, assessment, and other aspects of economic education at colleges and universities in the U.S. These articles represent but a sample of the growing commentary among academics on the importance of effective teaching and economic education scholarship.
Author : Alan B. Krueger
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ISBN 13 : 9781840641066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Education Matters written by Alan B. Krueger and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of economic research on education conducted by Krueger in the 1990s. The papers are divided into four major sections: estimating the payoff of completing more education; estimating the payoff of school quality; issues related to race and education; and changes in educational payoff over time, including technological change. A final two essays consider education and economic growth, with a focus on Sweden, and evaluate whether American schools are "broken." Krueger (economics and public affairs, Princeton U.) is also author of Education matters and served as the chief economist of the U.S. Labor Department of in 1994 and 1995. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Mary Jean Bowman
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Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Learning and earning written by Mary Jean Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Wells Patterson
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Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education written by Richard Wells Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines various economic factors that influence student academic performance. In the first essay, I explore the role of behavioral factors in educational performance by testing whether time-management tools can improve academic outcomes for online students. I design three software tools including (1) a commitment device that allows students to pre-commit to time limits on distracting Internet activities, (2) a reminder tool that is triggered by time spent on distracting websites, and (3) a focusing tool that allows students to block distracting sites when they go to the course website. I test the impact of these tools in a large-scale randomized experiment (n=657) conducted in a massive open online course (MOOC) hosted by Stanford University. Relative to students in the control group, students in the commitment device treatment spend 24% more time working on the course, receive course grades that are 0.29 standard deviations higher, and are 40% more likely to complete the course. In contrast, outcomes for students in the reminder and focusing treatments are not statistically distinguishable from the control. These results suggest that tools designed to address procrastination can have a significant impact on online student performance. In the second essay, I examine whether trends in parenting time could help explain the black-white test score gap. I use data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to examine the patterns in the time black and white children receive from mothers at each age between birth and age 14 and compare these patterns to corresponding test-score gaps documented in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K). I observe that black children spend significantly less time with their mothers than white children in the first years of life and that differences are concentrated in activities that may be especially important during these years. Differences in parenting time, however, rapidly decline with age. Contrastingly, when socioeconomic variables are controlled, black-white test score gaps are small in kindergarten, but then grow over time. The results of this study suggest that contemporaneous differences in parent time are unlikely to be a significant factor in black-white test score trends. In the third essay, coauthored with Jordan Matsudaira, I study whether charter school unionization impacts student academic outcomes. We use administrative school-level data coupled with data on the timing of union recognition collected via our own public records requests (PRR) and records of unionization from the state Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to construct difference-in-difference estimates the of the impact of teacher unionization on student outcomes. We find that unionization has a positive and statically significant impact on student math performance and a positive but only marginally significant impact on english performance. In our preferred estimates, we find that unions increase average grade-level math test scores by 0.17-0.21 standard deviations (SD) and English scores by 0.06-0.08 SD. These estimates allow us to rule out even modest negative effects of unionization on student academic outcomes.
Author : Ben Safety Ost
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Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Three Essays in the Economics of Education written by Ben Safety Ost and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a compilation of three essays. The first essay uses longitudinal administrative data on teachers to investigate the relative productivity benefits of acquiring general versus task-specific human capital. Within a school, elementary teachers frequently change grade assignments and I exploit the resulting variation in grade-specific tenure to separately identify the effect of general teaching experience and specific experience. Using a value-added model that controls for teacher fixed effects, I find that both general experience and grade-specific experience improve teacher performance. In addition to providing evidence that the productivity returns to human capital can be sensitive to seemingly small changes in task requirements, this study furthers our understanding of how teachers improve with experience. The second essay uses longitudinal administrative data from a large selective research university to analyze the role of peers and grades in determining major persistence in the life and physical sciences. In the physical sciences, analyses using within-course, across-time variation show that ex-ante measures of peer quality in a student's introductory courses has a lasting impact on the probability of persisting in the major. This peer effect exhibits important non-linearities such that weak students benefit from exposure to stronger peers while strong students are not dragged down by weaker peers. In both the physical and life sciences, I find evidence that students are "pulled away" by their high grades in non-science courses and "pushed out" by their low grades in their major field. The final essay examines the effect of undergraduate course letter grades on future course selection and major choice. Using a Regression-Discontinuity design, I exploit the fact that the probability of earning a particular letter grade jumps discontinuously around letter grade cutoffs. This variation in letter grades allows me to isolate the impact of letter grades on major choice and course selection. I collect original numerical scores for 65 introductory courses across 6 fields and merge this with administrative data including student-level characteristics and transcripts. Since grading cutoffs exist throughout the distribution of scores, I am able to estimate local treatment effects at a variety of localities to examine the distribution of treatment effects. Contrary to the findings of the previous literature, I find no evidence that students respond to their letter grades in terms of course or major choices.
Author : Unesco
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Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Readings in the Economics of Education: a Selection of Articles, Essays and Texts from the Works of Economists, Past and Present, on the Relationships Between Economics and Education written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Müller
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Four Essays on the Economics of Vocational Education and Training written by Barbara Müller and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valentina Amanda Paredes Haz
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Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education written by Valentina Amanda Paredes Haz and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important question that many educators face is how to motivate students to study. Many programs in the US and other countries give cash or award incentives to encourage students to exert more effort. In the following three essays, I explore different alternatives to raise student effort, which in turn should raise student achievement, measured in grades and standardized test scores. In my first essay, I propose that the grading system affects the incentives to exert effort among students. For this purpose, I build a model where students maximize their utility by choosing effort. I investigate how student effort changes when there is a change in the grading system from absolute grading to relative grading. I use data from college students in Chile who faced a change in the grading system to test the implications of my model. My model predicts that, for low levels of uncertainty: (i) total effort is higher with absolute grading; (ii) low ability students exert less effort with absolute grading, and; (iii) high ability students exert more effort with absolute grading. The data confirms that there is a change in the distribution of effort, although I don't find a change in the total level of effort. One results from the model discussed in the first essay is that high ability students exert higher effort under higher standards, but a high standard might have a negative impact on low ability students, who could give up and hence exert zero effort. So in my second essay, I explore whether higher grading standards have an effect on student achievement measured by standardized tests. Grading standards are measured as the school intercept in a regression of standardized test scores on grades. Using data from 8th graders in Chile, I find that higher standards have a positive average effect on standardized test scores. This effect is positive for the percentiles 25, 50 and 75 of the achievement distribution and is larger for the 25th percentile. In my third essay, I explore whether the gender of the teacher has an impact on student achievement and if this impact is different for boys and girls. Again, I use data from 8th graders in Chile. Within-student comparisons based on these data indicate that assignment to a same-gender teacher significantly improves the achievement of girls but doesn't improve the achievement of boys. I find that the effect is larger for subjects that are traditionally considered male dominated, and for girls whose mothers have low levels of education, which is consistent with a role model hypothesis.
Author : minseon park (Ph.D.)
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Essays on Economics of Education written by minseon park (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation includes three essays in the field of economics of education. The first chapter (joint with Dong Woo Hahm) explores the impact of public school assignment reforms by building a households' school choice model with two key features---(1) endogenous residential location choice and (2) opt-out to outside schooling options. Households decide where to live taking into account that locations determine access to schools---admissions probabilities and commuting distances to schools. Households are heterogeneous both in observed and unobserved characteristics. We estimate the model using administrative data from New York City's middle school choice system. Variation from a boundary discontinuity design separately identifies access-to-school preferences from other location amenities. Residential sorting based on access-to-school preference explains 30\% of the gap in test scores of schools attended by minority students versus their peers. If households' residential locations were fixed, a reform that introduces purely lottery-based admissions to schools in lower- and mid-Manhattan would reduce the cross-racial gap by 7\%. However, households' endogenous location choices dampen the effect by half. The second chapter (joint with Dong Woo Hahm) explores how students' previously attended schools influence their subsequent school choices and how this relationship affects school segregation. Using administrative data from New York City, we document the causal effects of the middle school a student attends on her high school application/assignment. Motivated by this finding, we estimate a dynamic model of middle and high school choices. We find that the middle schools' effects mainly operate by changing how students rank high schools rather than how high schools rank their applications. Counterfactual analysis shows that policymakers can design more effective policies by exploiting the dynamic relationship of school choices. The third chapter (joint with Lois Miller) studies how colleges' ``sticker price'' and institutional financial aid change during and after tuition caps and freezes using a modified event study design. While tuition regulations lower sticker prices, colleges recoup losses by lowering financial aid or rapidly increasing tuition after regulations end. At four-year colleges, regulations lower sticker price by 6.3 percentage points while simultaneously reducing aid by nearly twice as much (11.3 percentage points). At two-year colleges, while regulations lower tuition by 9.3 percentage points, the effect disappears within three years of the end of the regulation. Changes in net tuition vary widely; focusing on four-year colleges, while some students receive discounts up to 5.9 percentage points, others pay 3.8 percentage points more than they would have without these regulations. Students who receive financial aid, enter college right after the regulation is lifted, or attend colleges that are more dependent on tuition benefit less.
Author : Peter Sturmthal Bergman
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Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education written by Peter Sturmthal Bergman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I study three separate questions in this dissertation. In Chapter 1, I examine how information frictions between parents and their children affect human capital investment, and how much reducing those friction can improve student effort and achievement. I find that providing additional information to parents regarding missing assignments is a potentially cost-effective strategy to increase parental investments and improve student achievement. In Chapter 2, we measure the impact of high-quality charter schools on teen fertility using admission lotteries to several Los Angeles charter schools as a natural experiment. We find evidence that admission to high-quality charter schools can substantially reduce teen pregnancies. In Chapter 3, we semi-parametrically estimate teacher effects on student test scores using data from the Los Angeles Unified School District. We document that there is significantly more within-teacher variation in teachers' effects than across teacher variation. We find that interacting the teacher indicator variables with a function of the students' lagged test scores captures most of the nonlinearities, preserves the heterogeneity of teacher effects, and provides more accurate estimates.
Author : Nicolás A. Grau Veloso
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Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Two Essays on the Economics of Education written by Nicolás A. Grau Veloso and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mirjam Strupler Leiser
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ISBN 13 : 9783866246188
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Four Essays in Economics of Education written by Mirjam Strupler Leiser and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roope Uusitalo
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ISBN 13 : 9789514584244
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Essays in Economics of Education written by Roope Uusitalo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Javier Alfonso Luque
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Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Essays on Economics of Education written by Javier Alfonso Luque and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
