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Strategic grade retention
Bach, Maximilian - 2019
potentially has important implications for public spending on education and affected students. To this end, I build a model in …
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314944
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany’s early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499810
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Optimal need-based financial aid
Colas, Mark; Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2019
We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students receive more aid even without distributional...
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The E-word on the public acceptance of experiments
Fischer, Mira; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139067
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Who teaches the teachers? : a RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools
Wyness, Gillian; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018
It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can have lasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, we conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905517
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Class rank and long-run outcomes
Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905519
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The ifo Education Survey 2014-2021
Freundl, Vera; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Pfaehler, Franziska; … - 2023
The ifo Education Survey is a representative opinion survey of the German voting-age population on education topics … that has been conducted annually since 2014. It covers public preferences on a wide range of education policy issues … ranging from early childhood education, schools, and apprenticeships to university education and life-long learning. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477438
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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations
Bach, Maximilian - 2021
This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...
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Complex approaches for education in Brazil
Sakowski, Patrícia Alessandra Morita; Tóvolli, Marina H. - 2016
Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are … education systems, new approaches seem relevant, and even necessary, if we consider that traditional methods are often not … complex system approach in education, and to bring to discussion the potential benefits of this perspective to education in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058352