Essays on instruction time, grades and parental investments in education
(2022) In Lund Economic Studies- Abstract
- This thesis consists of four self-contained papers in the economics of education. The first chapter examines the importance of instruction time for student achievement on international assessments. The second chapter identifies the effect of sibling gender on education and how this effect varies according to traditional inheritance customs. The third chapter studies the effect of more informative feedback on student performance. The fourth chapter investigates the effect of university grade inflation on graduates’ labour market outcomes.
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- author
- Collins, Matthew LU
- supervisor
- opponent
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- Professor Rainer, Helmut, University of Munich
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- instruction time, student achievement, PISA, TIMSS, sibling gender, patriliny, matriliny, educational attainment, grading, feedback, educational outcomes, natural experiment, HBSC, grade inflation, signalling, human capital
- in
- Lund Economic Studies
- issue
- 229
- publisher
- Lund University
- defense location
- EC3:210
- defense date
- 2022-05-06 10:15:00
- ISBN
- 978-91-8039-149-8
- 978-91-8039-150-4
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 3c4dbcba-af1d-4d68-b77b-3830ddcbb708
- date added to LUP
- 2022-04-14 09:22:47
- date last changed
- 2024-04-11 11:58:56
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