{"title":"The impact of pre-conference advice on academic talk effectiveness","authors":"Nikolas Breitkopf , Matti Keloharju","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102607","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102607","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Utilizing a randomized controlled trial, we explore the effect of advice on presentation quality at a prestigious academic finance conference. Employing a panel of MTurk workers to evaluate presentations for effectiveness, our findings show that treated speakers are 0.22 standard deviations more likely to win a comparison for effectiveness against non-treated counterparts. We further corroborate these results by examining the treatment effects on presentation slides, overall presentation quality, Zoom talk attendance duration, and YouTube viewings. This evidence suggests that informing speakers about good presentation practices can substantially improve the effectiveness of conference talks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 102607"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jani-Petteri Ollikainen , Tuomas Pekkarinen , Roope Uusitalo , Hanna Virtanen
{"title":"Effect of secondary education on cognitive and non-cognitive skills","authors":"Jani-Petteri Ollikainen , Tuomas Pekkarinen , Roope Uusitalo , Hanna Virtanen","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102603","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102603","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the effects of secondary education on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using admission cutoffs to general secondary schools. We measure these skills using the Finnish Defence Forces Basic Skills Test, which, due to compulsory military service, covers the vast majority of Finnish men and serves as a strong predictor of later labor market success. We find that the large differences in the average skills across men that differ in their schooling when entering military service are due to selection rather than causal effects of secondary education on either cognitive or non-cognitive skills.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102603"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142703815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncovering the sources of gender earnings gaps among teachers: The role of compensation off the salary schedule","authors":"Diana Quintero , Michael Hansen , Nicolas Zerbino","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102602","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102602","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines teacher earnings to provide empirical evidence on the sources and the extent of gender gaps in the teaching profession. Using data from two waves of the National Teacher and Principal Survey, we show that on average male teachers have a small advantage of over $700 in base pay (1.3 % of the sample average) compared to female teachers with similar characteristics and in similar contexts. Men also significantly outearn women, all else equal, on three of four different types of school-based supplemental compensation, raising the adjusted earnings gap to 7.2 % of total school earnings. Teachers’ participation in extra duties and the likelihood of earning compensation for them differ by gender. Male teachers are both more likely to perform extra duties and receive compensation for those activities than female teachers, and the earnings gap increases when schools have a male principal. Our results provide insight into teacher compensation and have implications on practices that could promote more equitable pay.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102602"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica L. Arnup , Nicole Black , David W. Johnston
{"title":"Expecting less in hard times: How the state of the economy influences students’ educational expectations","authors":"Jessica L. Arnup , Nicole Black , David W. Johnston","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102606","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102606","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Students’ realistic aspirations about their educational attainment (expectations) are predictive of their efforts, actions, and future outcomes. Limited evidence suggests these expectations are affected by the macroeconomy; however, the direction is ambiguous. We combine seven waves of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data to examine this relationship in 38 OECD countries. Using within-country fixed-effect regressions, we find students have significantly lower educational expectations when GDP growth is low or negative. Assessing the heterogeneity of these relationships, we find that the expectations of students with below-average reading skills or who attend non-metropolitan schools are most strongly affected by the state of the economy. The results also suggest that when GDP growth is weak, students are significantly more likely to complete zero homework and arrive late to school, are less likely to participate in extracurricular academic programs, and expect lower labour market returns to completed education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102606"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suzanne Bellue , Adrien Bouguen , Marc Gurgand , Valerie Munier , André Tricot
{"title":"When Effective teacher training falls short in the classroom: Evidence from an experiment in primary schools","authors":"Suzanne Bellue , Adrien Bouguen , Marc Gurgand , Valerie Munier , André Tricot","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102599","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although in-service teacher training programs are designed to enhance the performance of several cohorts of students, there is little evidence on the persistence of their effects. We present the two-year results of a randomized study of an intensive in-service teacher training program conducted in France during and after the training program’s implementation. Our results highlight the short-run effectiveness of the training program: it successfully improves students’ performance but only during the implementation year. A detailed analysis of teachers’ outcomes indicates that teachers changed their pedagogical vision and practices but afterward struggled to apply skills to contents not directly covered during training.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102599"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peer effects and honor probation: Evidence from USAFA","authors":"Aaron Albert","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102601","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102601","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Academic cheating is a troubling phenomenon in higher education because it undermines the value of grades and degree completion as a signal of academic ability and skills accumulated. This study uses administrative data from the United States Air Force Academy to estimate the causal effect of honor probation of one’s peers. Using conditionally random squadron assignment, I find that students in a squadron with more peers that have experienced honor probation are less likely to end up on honor probation themselves. This decrease in honor probation is highest for students with low college preparation. These results suggest that increased awareness and salience of punishment for honor probation may discourage academic cheating in higher education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102601"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142578137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher A. Candelaria , Ishtiaque Fazlul , Cory Koedel , Kenneth A. Shores
{"title":"Weighting for progressivity? An analysis of implicit tradeoffs associated with weighted student funding in Tennessee","authors":"Christopher A. Candelaria , Ishtiaque Fazlul , Cory Koedel , Kenneth A. Shores","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102600","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102600","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the progressivity of school district funding under Tennessee's weighted student funding formula. We propose a simple definition of progressivity based on the difference in exposure to district per-pupil funding between poor and non-poor students. The realized progressivity of district funding in Tennessee is much smaller—only about 17 percent as large—as the formula weights imply directly. The attenuation is driven by the mixing of poor and non-poor students within districts. We further show the components of the Tennessee formula not explicitly tied to student poverty are only modestly progressive.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102600"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142571483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comprehensive early literacy policy and the “Mississippi Miracle”","authors":"Noah Spencer","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102598","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102598","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In 2013, Mississippi ranked 49th in fourth grade reading achievement on the National Assessment of Education Progress. By 2019, the state ranked 29th. I study whether Mississippi’s 2013 Literacy-Based Promotion Act (LBPA), a multi-faceted strategy for improving K-3 literacy, played a part in this ascension. Using a synthetic difference-in-differences approach, I estimate that the LBPA meaningfully improved grade 4 reading and math test scores on the national assessment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102598"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142532607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Borbely , Markus Gehrsitz , Stuart McIntyre , Gennaro Rossi
{"title":"Does the provision of universal free school meals improve school attendance?","authors":"Daniel Borbely , Markus Gehrsitz , Stuart McIntyre , Gennaro Rossi","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102597","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102597","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the effects of universal free school meal (UFSM) policies on school attendance and health-related absences. We leverage UFSM implementation in Scotland where all pupils in the first three grades of primary schools became automatically entitled to claim free meals, regardless of their households’ financial circumstances. We estimate a difference-in-differences model with variation in school-level exposure to the policy and find that, in spite of a large increase in take-up rates, attendance did not improve. Using an alternative exposure measure that includes those pupils switching from paid to free school meals, we find small positive and negative effects on attendance and health-related absences respectively. These findings would suggest the presence of a channel whereby financial savings by families encourage attendance, but these effects are too small to be considered economically meaningful.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102597"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142532606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All pain and no gain: When goal setting leads to more effort but no gains in test scores","authors":"Asad Islam , Sungoh Kwon , Eema Masood , Nishith Prakash , Shwetlena Sabarwal , Deepak Saraswat","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102594","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102594","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We conducted an at-scale randomized control trial among 18,281 secondary students in Tanzania to examine the effects of self-set academic goals on students’ efforts and academic outcomes. We also tested the impact of combining goal setting with non-financial rewards. We found that goal-setting had a significant positive effect on self-reported student time use, study effort, and self-discipline, along with a positive but statistically insignificant impact on test performance. We also found that combining goal setting with recognition awards for achieving the goals did not demonstrate any complementary effects. Heterogeneity analysis suggested that goal-setting had a higher impact on test performance for students in the middle of the distribution of baseline learning levels. We also found that the impact of the treatment did not vary significantly across students’ gender, socioeconomic background, or type of chosen goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102594"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142422319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}