Showing papers in "Economics of Education Review in 2009"

TL;DR: This paper found that the most powerful pre-school avenue for boosting fifth-grade achievement appears to be improving the basic academic skills of low-achieving children prior to kindergarten entry, with the exception of a kindergartener's capacity to pay attention, virtually no impacts for the collection of socioemotional skills.

TL;DR: The authors used the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the US, using the 2000 Census.

TL;DR: The authors used changes in compulsory schooling laws in the United Kingdom to test this hypothesis and found evidence of a causal relation running from more schooling to better health which is much larger than standard regression estimates suggest.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis was applied to assess the effect of education on social trust and social participation, the basic dimensions of individual social capital, and the authors found that education is a strong and robust correlate of social capital.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used difference-in-differences to estimate the effect of a large increase in instructional time on high school students' academic achievement and found that the program had a positive effect on students' achievement in both mathematics and language.

TL;DR: This paper used a state administrative dataset that matches individual students to their teachers over time, and found that teachers' undergraduate performance, as measured by GPA (overall, math education) and course hours (math and math education), is predictive of 5th grade math achievement.

TL;DR: This paper used propensity score matching to nonparametrically balance a data set from the 1996 Beginning Postsecondary Students survey in order to overcome issues associated with selection bias and found that attendance at a community college lowers the hazard rate for completing a bachelor's degree.

TL;DR: This paper examined intrastate college student migration, using data for Georgia, and found that student intrastately migration is strongly discouraged by greater distance, but with effects that differ across types of higher education institutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-product cost function is estimated for English higher education institutions using a panel of data from recent years, which allows estimation by means of a random parameter stochastic frontier model.

TL;DR: The authors examined the competitive effects of charters on the efficiency of traditional public schools and found that the effect is small or negligible in the short run, but becomes more substantial in the long run.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate that a C$1000 increase in university tuition fees is estimated to reduce the enrolment rate by between 2.5 and 5 percentage points in Canada.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to analyze factors influencing students' college application decisions, with a focus on the decision to apply to a selective 4-year college.

TL;DR: For example, this article used 15 years of detailed data on alumni donations to a private liberal arts college to explore a full range of potential determinants of giving and found that wealthy alumni who live in states that allow charitable tax deductions are more generous than otherwise similar alumni in states without such subsidies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors add a measure of school costs to the model of determinants of schooling and find that household wealth has a large effect on primary school attendance with greater income elasticity for girls than boys.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the incidence of over and under education and the effect on earnings for immigrants and natives who hold UK qualifications, drawn from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey 1993-2003.

TL;DR: This article found that white boys outperform white girls in math across virtually the entire distribution by the end of third grade; there is less evidence for other races, but only the lowest-achieving boys lose ground over the first 4 years; boys gain ground between first and third grades.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess factors affecting primary and middle school dropout in rural Punjab and North-West Frontier Province over 6 years (1997-2004) and find that the importance of both household and school factors are significant.

TL;DR: The authors studied the non-market effects of education on crime using a panel dataset for the 20 Italian regions over the period 1980-1995, concluding that education reduces crime over and above its effect through labour market opportunities (employment rate and wage rate).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors decompose annual average years of schooling series for Portugal into different schooling levels series and provide measures of aggregate and disaggregate economic growth impacts of different education levels.

TL;DR: The authors proposed a structural equation model to obtain both the direct effects and the set of indirect effects of education on job satisfaction, and showed that people with higher levels of formal education are more satisfied with their jobs, because they are more likely to access jobs with characteristics that provide greater satisfaction.

TL;DR: The authors evaluated the impact of Zone d'Education Prioritaire (ZEP) status on resources, their utilization (teacher bonuses versus teaching hours) and key establishments characteristics such as class sizes, school enrolments, teachers' qualifications and experience, and student composition and mobility.

TL;DR: This article used a unique data set to investigate whether the success of a school's athletic program affects alumni donations and found that the impact of athletic success on donations differs for men and women.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by scores on Peabody Individual Achievement Tests in math and reading, and grade attainment, and found that children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores that are about the same as children with average weight.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the role played by Indonesia's Social Safety Net Scholarships Program in reducing school dropout rates during the Asian financial crisis and found that the scholarships were effective in reducing drop-outs at the level of schooling at which students were historically most at the risk of dropping out.

TL;DR: This paper found no evidence of robust residential peer effects in Chinese higher education and found evidence that females respond to peer influences whereas males do not, consistent with social psychology theories that females are more influenced by peers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a rich dataset to observe each student in different subjects and courses over time and identify the peers and the teachers that each student had had in every classroom.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an experiment to estimate the efficacy of merit-aid awards in achieving the institutional objective of attracting the most academically desirable applicants, and they found that merit aid has a statistically significant but inelastic effect on enrollment of extremely high ability students.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple model was developed to examine how social trust might affect the growth of schooling through lowering transaction costs associated with employing educated individuals in a sample of 52 countries.

TL;DR: This article analyzed data from four European countries and found that the combination of time spent in education with excess (or deficit) qualification may make overqualification either a major or a minor mismatch.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined university and college participation rates, as well as graduate outcomes following the establishment of a university in cities where there were previously none, and found that the creation of a local university is associated with a large increase in university attendance among local youth in each affected city.