Showing papers in "Economics of Education Review in 2006"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the possibility of measuring efficiency in the context of higher education and explore the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for measuring the efficiency in higher education context.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the determinants of private tutoring expenditures in Turkey using the results of the 1994 Household Expenditure Survey and examined them within a Tobit model framework, including total household expenditure, education levels of parents and other household characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used exogenous variation in birth dates and kindergarten entrance age policies to generate instrumental variable estimates of the effect of delaying kindergarten entrance on children's academic achievement, finding that entering kindergarten a year older significantly boosts test scores at kindergarten entry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a longitudinal event history modeling approach to examine whether individual characteristics of the principal and the school in which they work are related to different types of principal turnover, finding that over the time period considered, turnover among all school principals was 14 percent in Illinois and 18 percent in North Carolina.

TL;DR: This article found that higher-quality female teachers are less likely to leave the teaching profession and that teacher quality does not impact attrition of male teachers. But, teachers with skills attractive to non-education employment may not be the best individuals in the classroom.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the relationship between age at arrival and immigrant-receiving high schools (i.e., enclave schools) on the academic performance of first and second-generation immigrant children using data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS).

TL;DR: In this paper, a three-equation structural system by two stage least squares (2SLS) is presented to explore the role that human capital should play in improving the region's economic productivity.

TL;DR: This article found that the end of affirmative action in public colleges in Texas affected the percent of minority high school graduates applying to college, and that the number of minority students applying to colleges increased significantly when the percent plan was accompanied by changes in financial aid.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship between educational attainment and wages in Mexico and found that educational attainment is positively associated with earnings, wages, and economic growth in the country.

TL;DR: The authors presented a multiple spells-competing risks model of stopout, dropout, reenrollment, and graduation behavior and found that students who experience an initial stopout are more likely to experience subsequent stopouts (occurrence dependence) and are less likely to graduate.

TL;DR: This paper used school-level panel data, and generated first-differences estimates of the effect of school size on achievement, and exploited shocks to enrollment provided by school openings, closings, and mergers in a two-stageleast-squares estimation.

TL;DR: This article found that transfer students who attend 2-year colleges are at a disadvantage due primarily to lower individual quality rather than the lower quality of 2-to-4 degree transfer students.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed how institutional selectivity influences college preferences and enrollment decisions of Texas seniors in the presence of a putatively race-neutral admissions policy (the top 10% law) and found that Texas seniors and top decile graduates are highly responsive to institutional selectivities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a family fixed effects approach to assess the effectiveness of Tech-prep programs in increasing educational attainment and find that Tech-Prep programs help participants complete high school and encourage enrollment in two-year colleges, but these gains come at the expense of four-year college enrollment.

TL;DR: The first available estimates of Mincerian earnings equations based on the Belarusian Household Survey on Incomes and Expenditure suggest that the skill payoff was high in 1996, at about 10.1% per year, and stable as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate school performance in Missouri by measuring the efficiency with which schools provide their education services using a two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach, and simulate the effects of two sanctions (school transfer, and supplemental tutoring services) under the No Child Left Behind Act on the performance of failing schools.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether the number of hours of television watched by young adults is associated with performance on standardized exams and whether any such relationship is causal, concluding that television viewing does not negatively affect performance on tests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model for the analysis of cost efficiency within the framework of data envelopment analysis models, which calculates the cost excess, separating a unit of production from its optimal or frontier levels, and, at the same time, breaks these excesses down into three explanatory factors: (a) technical inefficiency, which depends on the quality of the factors consumed, the type of organization and the factor of human behaviour; (b) the availability of the fixed factors along with their level of utilization and the factors mix; and finally (c) the scale or

TL;DR: This article found that faculty research productivity is positively related to reputation but negatively related to student quality at research universities, but that reputation and student quality have little impact on research productivity at liberal arts colleges.

TL;DR: This article found that test score gains are positively associated with employment status and earnings for women and negatively associated with low initial test scores for men, except for those men who had low initial scores.

TL;DR: The authors used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) to assess the effects of STC programs on transitions to employment and higher education among youths leaving high school, with a focus on attempting to estimate the causal effects of this participation given possible non-random selection of youths into STC.

TL;DR: In the case of secondary schools, average teacher test scores on subject-matter and teaching methodology sections of the test are positively associated with student achievement as mentioned in this paper, and the effect is larger in secondary schools than in primary schools.

TL;DR: The authors used data from the National Education Longitudinal Study to estimate the association between high school alcohol use and educational attainment measured around age 26, but there is little evidence that this association represents a causal relationship.

TL;DR: This article examined the extent to which access to 2-year colleges affects both the number of years of postsecondary education completed by Hispanics and the probability of their one-day attaining bachelor's degrees.

TL;DR: This article explored the role of gender differences in college major in accounting for occupational differences in first-jobs among recent college graduates and found that gender differences of college major and selected job choice variables explain a significant portion of gender difference in engineering/computer, medical, teaching, and service occupations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the link between ownership of a home computer at ages 15 and 17 and subsequent educational attainment in the principal British school examinations taken at ages 16 (GCSEs) and 18 (A-levels).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce and estimate a model that imposes little structure on the relationship between intake achievement and follow-up achievement and evaluate school performance based on this estimated relationship.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present basic evidence about the very substantial impacts of general cognitive skills on individual earnings and on economic growth, and then put in a school policy framework that emphasizes the importance of considering both the magnitude and the speed of quality improvements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the validity of two education requirement measures: Huijgen's rather dated measure and, second, the new measure of Statistics Netherlands, and concluded that the Statistics Netherlands measure proved to be more valid than the Huijngen measure.

TL;DR: The authors used interview and survey data from a local sample of 14 public and private 2-year colleges and found that the availability of job placement services by colleges predicts students' timely degree completion.