Report NEP-EDU-2015-12-28

This is the archive for NEP-EDU, a report on new working papers in the area of Education. João Carlos Correia Leitão issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Kengo, Igei & Takako, Yuki & Angela Demas, 2015. "Measuring Quality of Policies and Their Implementation for Better Learning: Adapting the World Bank’s SABER Tools School Autonomy and Accountability to Burkina Faso," Working Papers 109, JICA Research Institute.
• Aysit Tansel, 2015. "Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey," ERC Working Papers 1512, ERC - Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, revised Dec 2015.
• Katherine Eriksson, 2015. "Access to Schooling and the Black-White Incarceration Gap in the Early 20th Century US South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools," NBER Working Papers 21727, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee & Yongseok Shin & Donghoon Lee, 2015. "The Option Value of Human Capital: Higher Education and Wage Inequality," NBER Working Papers 21724, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Christopher Rooney & Corne van Walbeek, 2015. "Some determinants of Academic Exclusion and Graduation in three faculties at UCT," SALDRU Working Papers 161, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
• De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E. & Holland,Peter Anthony & Troiano,Sara, 2015. "Understanding the trends in learning outcomes in Argentina, 2000 to 2012," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7518, The World Bank.
• Ana Hidalgo-Cabrillana & Cristina Lopez-Mayan, 2015. "Teaching Styles and Achievement: Student and Teacher Perspectives," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 958.15, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
• Finn, Mairead & Darmody, Merike, 2015. "Predicting International Higher Education Students’ Satisfaction with their Study in Ireland," Papers WP520, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
• Barone, Adriana & Nese, Annamaria, 2015. "Body Weight and Gender: Academic Choice and Performance," MPRA Paper 68450, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Richard Murphy & Gill Wyness, 2015. "Testing Means-Tested Aid," CEP Discussion Papers dp1396, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
• Fredriksson, Peter & Ockert, Bjorn & Oosterbeek, Hessel, 2015. "Parental responses to public investments in children: Evidence from a maximum class size rule," Research Papers in Economics 2015:9, Stockholm University, Department of Economics.
• Eric A. Hanushek & Jens Ruhose & Ludger Woessmann, 2015. "Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform," NBER Working Papers 21770, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Isabel Busom & Cristina Lopez-Mayan, 2015. "Student Preconceptions And Learning Economic Reasoning," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 959.15, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
• Simplice Asongu & Vanessa Tchamyou, 2015. "Foreign aid, education and lifelong learning in Africa," Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. 15/047, African Governance and Development Institute..
• Ha Trong Nguyen, 2015. "The evolution of the gender test score gap through seventh grade: New insights from Australia using quantile regression and decomposition," Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Working Paper series WP1507, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School.
• Adrien Bouguen & Kamilla Gumede & Marc Gurgand, 2015. "Parent's Participation, Involvement and Impact on Student Achievment: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in South Africa," PSE Working Papers halshs-01241957, HAL.
• Li Chen & Juan Sebastian Pereyra Barreiro, 2015. "Self-Selection in School Choice," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2015-52, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
• Bart Cockx & Stijn Baert & Matteo Picchio, 2015. "Modeling the Effects of Grade Retention in High School," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 2015023, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
• Janina Nemitz, 2015. "The effect of all-day primary school programs on maternal labor supply," ECON - Working Papers 213, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.
• Atila Abdulkadiroglu & Joshua D. Angrist & Yusuke Narita & Parag A. Pathak, 2015. "Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation," NBER Working Papers 21705, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Richard de Groot & Sudhanshu Handa & Mike Park & Robert D. Osei & Isaac Osei-Akoto & Luigi Peter Ragno & Garima Bhalla, 2015. "Heterogeneous impacts of an unconditioal cash transfer programme on schooling: evidence from the Ghana LEAP programme," Papers inwopa793, Innocenti Working Papers.
• Lindsay C. Page & Judith Scott-Clayton, 2015. "Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses," NBER Working Papers 21781, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Ann E. Person & Lisbeth Goble & Julie Bruch & Jessie Mazeika, "undated". "Implementation of Competency-Based Education in Community Colleges: Findings from the Evaluation of a TAACCCT Grant," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 165a70b044824e7480833508d, Mathematica Policy Research.
• McGinnity, Frances & Darmody, Merike & Murray, Aisling, 2015. "Academic Achievement among Immigrant Children in Irish Primary Schools," Papers WP512, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
• Jules-Daniel Wurlod & Derek Eaton, 2015. "Chasing After the Frontier in Agricultural Productivity," FOODSECURE Working papers 36, LEI Wageningen UR.
• Evan Herrnstadt & Erich Muehlegger, 2015. "Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata," NBER Working Papers 21787, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• SELLAMI, Sana & VERHAEST, Dieter & NONNEMAN, Walter & VAN THIER, Walter, 2015. "The impact of educational mismatches on wages: The influence of measurement error and unobserved heterogeneity," Working Papers 2015021, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics.
• Daniel S. Hamermesh, 2015. "Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses and Impacts," NBER Working Papers 21754, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Joshua Angrist & Peter Hull & Parag A. Pathak & Christopher Walters, 2015. "Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation," NBER Working Papers 21748, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Fredriksson, Peter & Hensvik, Lena & Nordström Skans, Oskar, 2015. "Mismatch of Talent Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility," Research Papers in Economics 2015:10, Stockholm University, Department of Economics.
• Banks, Joanne & Conway, Paul & Darmody, Merike & Leavy, Aisling & Smyth, Emer & Watson, Dorothy, 2015. "Review of the Droichead Teacher Induction Pilot Programme," Papers WP514, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).