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The literacy hour
Stephen Machin,Sandra McNally +1 more
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In this article, the authors look at a primary school programme introduced into English schools, the literacy hour, to work out whether changing the structure and content of teaching can enhance literacy skills, thus acting as a tool to alleviate problems of low literacy.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2008-06-01. It has received 204 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Literacy & Basic skills.read more
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Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings, and explore the decline in mobility in the UK between the 1958 NCDS cohort and the 1970 cohort.
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The Persistence of Preschool Effects: Do Subsequent Classroom Experiences Matter
TL;DR: The findings suggest that most of the preschool-related gap in academic skills at school entry is quickly eliminated for children placed in small classrooms and classrooms providing high levels of reading instruction, and the initial disparities persist for children experiencing large classes and lower levels ofReading instruction.
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Do Differences in Schools' Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the effects of instructional time on students' achievement using PISA 2006 data, which include data samples from over 50 countries and find that instructional time has a positive and significant effect on test scores, and that the effect is much lower in developing countries.
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The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects
TL;DR: The authors discusses the central role of propensity scores and balancing scores in the analysis of observational studies and shows that adjustment for the scalar propensity score is sufficient to remove bias due to all observed covariates.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,John F. Kain,Steven G. Rivkin,Steven G. Rivkin +5 more
TL;DR: The authors disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools, and estimates educational production functions based on models of achievement growth with individual fixed effects.
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Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator
TL;DR: In this article, a rigorous distribution theory for kernel-based matching is presented, and the method of matching is extended to more general conditions than the ones assumed in the statistical literature on the topic.
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Reducing Bias in Observational Studies Using Subclassification on the Propensity Score
TL;DR: In this article, five subclasses defined by the estimated propensity score are constructed that balance 74 covariates, and thereby provide estimates of treatment effects using direct adjustment, and these subclasses are applied within sub-populations, and model-based adjustments are then used to provide estimates for treatment effects within these sub-population.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors disentangle the impact of schools and teachers in influencing achievement with special attention given to the potential problems of omitted or mismeasured variables and of student and school selection.
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