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M. Najeeb Shafiq; Robert K. Toutkoushian – Education Economics, 2024
We contribute to the higher education returns discourse by examining perceptions among college graduates. Using 2021 U.S. Survey of Household Economics of Decisionmaking data, we observe that over 80% of degree holders perceive that they received positive financial returns from college, while only 7% of college degree holders regret their decision…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, College Graduates, Majors (Students), Income
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Dilmaghani, Maryam – Education Economics, 2019
The present study assesses how education impacts religiosity. Education is instrumented using the changes in the Canadian school leaving age laws. The data are from the Canadian General Social Surveys collected between 1990 and 2011. The effects of education on both affiliation status and religious attendance are considered. Education is found to…
Descriptors: Religion, Beliefs, Catholics, Educational Legislation
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Richey, Jeremiah – Education Economics, 2015
This paper documents changes in the entire ability distribution of individuals entering the teaching profession using the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and a constructed Armed Force Qualifying Test score that allows direct comparison of ability between cohorts. Such direct comparison between cohorts was…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Ability
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Di Liberto, Adriana; Casula, Laura; Pau, Sara – Education Economics, 2022
We study if the Italian school system suffers from gender bias when judging students. To this aim, we use a differences-in-differences approach that compares the teachers' assessments and the standardized test scores that the students receive during the school year. We have census data for all Italian fifth and sixth graders in two different…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Outcomes of Education, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Characteristics
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Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy – Education Economics, 2017
Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Norway I investigate long-term birth month effects. I demonstrate that the oldest children in class have a substantially higher GPA than their younger peers. The birth month differences are larger for low-SES children. Furthermore, I find that the youngest children in class are lagging significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Grade Point Average, Socioeconomic Influences
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Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Dubey, Amaresh; Simonsen, Marianne – Education Economics, 2018
We evaluate the impact of educational reforms starting from the mid-1990s in India on the school attendance rate of low-income rural children aged 6-14 compared to ineligible rural children, employing NSSO data from 1983 to 2004/2005. We estimate a triple difference model allowing for differential (linear) trends and find a positive causal effect…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Rural Areas, Social Class, Foreign Countries
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Ost, Ben; Gangopadhyaya, Anuj; Schiman, Jeffrey C. – Education Economics, 2017
Studies using tests scores as the dependent variable often report point estimates in student standard deviation units. We note that a standard deviation is not a standard unit of measurement since the distribution of test scores can vary across contexts. As such, researchers should be cautious when interpreting differences in the numerical size of…
Descriptors: Scores, Statistical Analysis, Measurement, Computation
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Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina – Education Economics, 2018
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university and to choose a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) major. The reform increased the difficulty of graduating from high school by increasing the instruction time in core subjects and by raising the graduation…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Educational Change, Enrollment, Majors (Students)
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Lincove, Jane Arnold; Parker, Adam – Education Economics, 2016
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are used to reduce poverty while incentivizing investments in children. Targeting CCTs to certain groups of children can improve efficiency, but positive effects on eligible children may be offset by reductions in investments for ineligible siblings. Using data from Nicaragua, we estimate program effects on…
Descriptors: Poverty, Siblings, Eligibility, Foreign Countries
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Pritchett, Lant; Viarengo, Martina – Education Economics, 2015
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more equality depends not only on what "could" happen in principle, but also on what does happen in practice. We use the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database to examine the…
Descriptors: Government Role, Educational Quality, Governance, Correlation
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Van Klaveren, Chris; De Witte, Kristof – Education Economics, 2015
Schools frequently increase the instructional time to improve primary school children's math and reading skills. There is, however, little evidence that math and reading skills are effectively improved by these instruction-time increases. This study evaluates "Playing for Success" (PfS), an extended school day program for underachieving…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Team Sports, Extended School Day, Elementary School Students
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Sprietsma, Maresa – Education Economics, 2010
In this paper, we estimate the effect of pupil's relative age within the first grade of primary school on mathematics and reading test scores at age 15. The main objective is to evaluate the long-term causal effect of relative age in the first grades of primary school on pupil's test in 16 different countries. We use the national rule for…
Descriptors: Grade 1, School Entrance Age, Age Differences, Grade Repetition
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Oppedisano, Veruska; Turati, Gilberto – Education Economics, 2015
This paper provides evidence on the sources of differences in inequality in educational scores and their evolution over time in four European countries. Using Programme for International Student Assessment data from the 2000 and the 2006 waves, the paper shows that inequality decreased in Germany and Spain (two "decentralised" schooling…
Descriptors: Evidence, Equal Education, Etiology, Educational Development
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Mangan, John; Trendle, Bernard – Education Economics, 2010
The vocational education and training (VET) sector is a major pathway to post-school education for indigenous students, yet questions are being raised about the capacity of the VET system to provide successful outcomes for the indigenous apprentices and trainees it attracts. Within a system plagued by high cancellation rates in general, indigenous…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Indigenous Populations, Census Figures
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Robst, John – Education Economics, 2007
Many studies have examined the match between years of schooling and the schooling required for the job. The quantity of schooling is only one way to consider the match between schooling and jobs. This paper considers an alternative match between education and jobs based on the relationship between college majors and work activities. Twenty percent…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Gender Differences, Education Work Relationship, Economic Impact
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