Showing papers in "Economics of Education Review in 2019"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000 universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th Century.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided the first comprehensive analysis of major switching, looking at the patterns of switching in both academic and non-academic dimensions, and found that women are far more likely to leave STEM fields for majors that are less competitive but still somewhat science intensive.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) college programs is explained by differential subject choices and grades in secondary school.

TL;DR: This paper examined the consequences of charging tuition fees on university enrolments, equity, and proxies for institutional quality in the English higher education system and found that such fees resulted in increased funding per head and rising enrolments with no apparent widening gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the contemporary profile of students entering career academies in a large, diverse school district and estimated causal effects of participation in one of the district's well-regarded academies on a range of high school and college outcomes.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a random assignment experiment in 66 fourth and fifth-grade mathematics classrooms to evaluate the predictive validity of three measures of teacher performance: value-added, classroom observations, and student surveys.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the impact of school-based financial education programs on academic outcomes and the potential negative unintended effects of these programs on the probability to pass a grade.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the experience of the income-contingent loan (ICL) systems operating in England and Australia, in which monthly or two-weekly repayments are related to the borrower's income in that period, thus building in automatic insurance against inability to repay during periods of low income.

TL;DR: In this article, a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework is proposed to estimate pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to adult education, which combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the design of ICLs on the magnitude and distribution of government subsidies is highly dependent on the institutional setting and the average debt level as a share of average earnings.

TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of high school start time on student learning using a nationally-representative sample of students and used time diaries to examine the effects of start times on students' time allocation in order to explore the mechanisms through which changing start time affects learning.

TL;DR: The authors examined trends in the college wage premium by birth cohort across the five major household surveys in the United States: the Census/ACS, CPS, NLSY, PSID, and SIPP.

TL;DR: Using a nationally-representative sample of US kindergarteners, this paper found significant effects of the parental education of classmates on math and reading, but not on socio-emotional skills, and reassigning classrooms so that all students have the same parental education composition would narrow the achievement gap between children of parents who are high-school-educated and those who are university-educated by 9 to 13 percent.

TL;DR: This paper found that the academic and behavioral consequences of closing urban schools depend on the school settings displaced and receiving-school students experience in the wake of closures, and that the achievement of both students attending receiving and displaced schools was negatively affected by the number of displaced students.

TL;DR: The authors found evidence that teachers grade on a curve, leading to negative peer effects and that school choice is impacted only by the year when internal grades matter for future prospects, which is a source of distortion that may arise in any system that uses internal grades to compare students across schools and classes.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of diesel emissions from school buses on district-level health and academic achievement were evaluated using a statewide test of aerobic capacity, and the results suggest that engine retrofits can have meaningful and cost-effective impacts on health and cognitive functioning.

TL;DR: This article investigated inequalities in learning achievements at 12 years by household food insecurity trajectories at ages 5, 8, and 12 years in a longitudinal sample of 1,911 Indian children, and found that food insecurity at any age predicted lower vocabulary, reading, maths and English scores in early adolescence.

TL;DR: This paper examined the performance of computer-based testing in Massachusetts over two years to investigate test mode effects, and found an online test penalty of about 0.10 standard deviations in math and 0.25 standard deviation in English language arts.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of selective retention bonuses for highly effective teachers on low-performing, high poverty schools’ ability to elevate student performance by increasing access to effective instruction was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measure STEM requirements at the level of jobs, by classifying each posting as either STEM or non-STEM based on its job description text instead of its occupation identifier.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the effect of adopting a blended approach to teaching called the emporium model in which students complete online work in an on-campus lab with instructors onsite to assist.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from the admissions process from a highly selective private university in Colombia to analyze the impact of prestigious university attendance on the education trajectory and labor market outcomes of individuals.

TL;DR: The authors used data on first-year engineering students at a large, selective engineering school to investigate how peer gender, race, and ability, as well as instructor gender, can impact grades and persistence in engineering.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterize the general patterns of mismatch between colleges and students based on students' scores on China's National College Entrance Exam and find evidence of substantial overmatch and undermatch.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the impact of Texas Fitness Now (TFN), a four-year $37 million grant program that mandated daily PE for middle-school students in low-income schools.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the feasibility of various alternative potential student loan schemes for Ireland using National Employment Survey data for 2006, and used these estimates to simulate the effects of alternative types of student loans, including mortgage-type (government guaranteed bank) loans and income-contingent loans of various designs.

TL;DR: The authors investigated how the adoption of affirmative action for college admission affected the enrollment of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Brazil and found that these effects were concentrated within more competitive and more prestigious academic programs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a universal partial income-contingent loan (ICL) scheme for higher education in Japan, which is an affordable and universal ICL system.

TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized trial of a high-quality center-based early intervention on infants and toddlers in two communities in northern Colombia was conducted and the results indicated large positive effects on language, cognitive development and overall development, with girls benefitting the most.

TL;DR: This article examined the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success on the mobile dating app Tinder and found that women strongly prefer a highly educated potential partner, while men would have an aversion to a highly-educated potential partner.