nep-edu New Economics Papers
on Education
Issue of 2013‒05‒22
twelve papers chosen by
Joao Carlos Correia Leitao
University of Beira Interior and Technical University of Lisbon
  1. Universities Through the Looking Glass : Benchmarking University Governance to Enable Higher Education Modernization in MENA By World Bank
  2. Measuring Learning : How Effective Student Assessment Systems Can Help Achieve Learning for All By Marguerite Clarke
  3. How Can We Make Schools Work Better? By World Bank
  4. System Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) : What Matters Most in Teacher Policies? A Framework for Building a More Effective Teaching Profession By World Bank
  5. Learning from the Best : Improving Learning Through Effective Teacher Policies By Emiliana Vegas; Alejandro Ganimian; Analia Jaimovich
  6. Education Finance : It's How, Not Simply How Much, That Counts By Emiliana Vegas; Chelsea Coffin
  7. Nutrition and Cognitive Achievement: An Evaluation of the School Breakfast Program By David Frisvold
  8. From Education-to-Work : Opportunities and Challenges in the West Bank and Gaza By Stefanie Brodmann; Ernesto P. Cuadra; Mohamad Ismail Allouche; Samira Ahmed Hillis
  9. Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium By Brant Abbott; Giovanni Gallipoli; Costas Meghir; Giovanni L. Violante
  10. 2D : 4D Asymmetry and Gender Differences in Academic Performance : Evidence from Moscow and Manila By John V.C. Nye; Grigory Androuschak; Desirée Desierto; Garett Jones; Maria Yudkevich
  11. Early Childhood Education and Development in Indonesia : Strong Foundations, Later Success - A Preview By World Bank
  12. Performance in Mathematics and Digit Ratio: Evidence from 500 University Students By Ángeles Sánchez-Domínguez; José Sánchez-Campillo; Dolores Moreno-Herrero; Virginia Rosales
  1. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Education - Education For All Access and Equity in Basic Education Teaching and Learning Education - Primary Education
    Date: 2012–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:12535&r=edu
  2. By: Marguerite Clarke
    Keywords: Education - Education For All Tertiary Education Secondary Education Teaching and Learning Education - Primary Education
    Date: 2012–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:10058&r=edu
  3. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Gender - Gender and Education Education - Education For All Tertiary Education Teaching and Learning Education - Primary Education
    Date: 2012–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:10417&r=edu
  4. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Education - Education For All Tertiary Education Secondary Education Teaching and Learning Education - Primary Education
    Date: 2012–07
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:11926&r=edu
  5. By: Emiliana Vegas; Alejandro Ganimian; Analia Jaimovich
    Keywords: Education - Education For All Tertiary Education Secondary Education Teaching and Learning Education - Primary Education
    Date: 2012–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:10057&r=edu
  6. By: Emiliana Vegas; Chelsea Coffin
    Keywords: Education - Education For All Tertiary Education Finance and Financial Sector Development - Access to Finance Access and Equity in Basic Education Education - Primary Education
    Date: 2012–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:10056&r=edu
  7. By: David Frisvold
    Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of the School Breakfast Program (SBP) on cognitive achievement. The SBP is a federal entitlement program that offers breakfast to any student, including free breakfast for any low-income student, who attends a school that participates in the program. To increase the availability of the SBP, many states mandate that schools participate in the program if the percent of free or reduced-price eligible students in a school exceeds a specific threshold. Using the details of these mandates as a source of identifying variation, I find that the availability of the program increases student achievement.
    Date: 2013–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:emo:wp2003:1301&r=edu
  8. By: Stefanie Brodmann; Ernesto P. Cuadra; Mohamad Ismail Allouche; Samira Ahmed Hillis
    Keywords: Social Protections and Labor - Labor Markets Tertiary Education Access and Equity in Basic Education Teaching and Learning Education - Primary Education
    Date: 2012–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:10854&r=edu
  9. By: Brant Abbott (University of British Columbia, Canada); Giovanni Gallipoli (University of British Columbia); Costas Meghir (Yale University and NBER, USA; IFS, UK); Giovanni L. Violante (New York University and NBER, USA; CEPR, UK)
    Abstract: This paper compares partial and general equilibrium effects of alternative financial aid policies intended to promote college participation. We build an overlapping generations life-cycle, heterogeneous-agent, incomplete-markets model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving decisions. Altruistic parents make inter vivos transfers to their children. Labor supply during college, government grants and loans, as well as private loans, complement parental transfers as sources of funding for college education. We find that the current financial aid system in the U.S. improves welfare, and removing it would reduce GDP by two percentage points in the long-run. Any further relaxation of government-sponsored loan limits would have no salient effects. The short-run partial equilibrium effects of expanding tuition grants (especially their need-based component) are sizeable. However, long-run general equilibrium effects are 3-4 times smaller. Every additional dollar of government grants crowds out 20-30 cents of parental transfers.
    Keywords: Education, Financial Aid, Inter vivos Transfers, Credit Constraints, Equilibrium
    JEL: E24 I22 J23 J24
    Date: 2013–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rim:rimwps:15_13&r=edu
  10. By: John V.C. Nye (Department of Economics, George Mason University and Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, Higher School of Economics, Moscow); Grigory Androuschak (Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, Higher School of Economics, Moscow); Desirée Desierto (School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman); Garett Jones (Department of Economics, George Mason University); Maria Yudkevich (Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
    Abstract: Exposure to prenatal androgens affects both future behavior and life choices. However, there is still relatively limited evidence on its effects on academic performance. Moreover, the predicted effect of exposure to prenatal testosterone (T) - which is inversely correlated with the relative length of the second to fourth finger lengths (2D:4D) - would seem to have ambiguous effects on academic achievement since traits like confidence, aggressiveness, or risk-taking are not uniformly positive for success in school. We provide the first evidence of a non-linear relationship between 2D:4D and academic achievement using samples from Moscow and Manila. We find that there is a quadratic relationship between high T exposure and markers of achievement such as grades or test scores and that the optimum digit ratio for women in our sample is lower (indicating higher prenatal T) than the average. The results for men are generally insignificant for Moscow but significant for Manila showing similar non-linear effects. Our work is thus unusual in that it draws from a large sample of nearly a thousand university students in Moscow and over a hundred from Manila for whom we also have extensive information on high school test scores, family background and other potential correlates of achievement. Our work is also the first to have a large cross country comparison that includes two groups with very different ethnic compositions.
    Keywords: academic performance, female achievement, 2D4D ratio
    Date: 2012–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:phs:dpaper:201203&r=edu
  11. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Education - Primary Education Education - Early Childhood Development Urban Development - Street Children Education - Educational Sciences Health, Nutrition and Population - Early Child and Children's Health
    Date: 2012–11
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:12122&r=edu
  12. By: Ángeles Sánchez-Domínguez (Departament of Applied Economics, University of Granada, Spain.); José Sánchez-Campillo (Departament of Applied Economics, University of Granada, Spain.); Dolores Moreno-Herrero (Departament of Applied Economics, University of Granada, Spain.); Virginia Rosales (Departament of Applied Economics, University of Granada, Spain.)
    Abstract: We analyze the association between performance in a mathematics course among university students at the Faculty of Business and Economics and exposure to prenatal sex hormones using the second-to-fourth digit ratio. In a sample of 516 freshmen (304 women), we find an inverted U-shaped relationship between digit ratio and mathematics grades. Males and females show the same pattern in that subjects with both high and low digit ratios earn lower grades in mathematics, while subjects with the highest grades in mathematics have intermediate digit ratios. We also find that there is no statistically significant relationship between the digit ratio and the average grades earned by students in other courses except mathematics taken in the first semester at the Faculty of Business and Economics.
    Keywords: Prenatal Sex Hormones, 2D:4D Digit Ratios, Performance
    Date: 2013–04–27
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gra:wpaper:13/04&r=edu
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