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November 15, 2019

How traffic pollution affects children’s academic performance

Lower test scores, more behavioral incidents, and more absences

  • absences
  • academic performance
  • education
  • pollution
  • school
  • test scores
  • Claudia Persico
  • David Simon
  • Jennifer Heissel
Research

September 17, 2015

Can gender differences in computer use explain why boys do worse in school than girls?

Boys perform worse in school than girls, which has been dubbed the “Boy Crisis”. An analysis of the latest data […]

  • academic achievement
  • Boy Crisis
  • computer use
  • educational outcomes
  • email
  • gender gap
  • grades
  • home use
  • homework time
  • playing games
  • schoolchildren
  • schoolwork
  • social networking
  • test scores
  • Robert W. Fairlie
Research

September 22, 2014

Grades and rank: How do they affect student effort?

The educational system is built upon a sequence of tests to measure student performance. Improving student performance is a key […]

  • grades
  • incentive
  • motivation
  • performance
  • ranking
  • school
  • students
  • Sweden
  • teachers
  • test scores
  • Elin Pellas
  • Juanna Schrøter Joensen
  • Nina Jalava
Research

March 19, 2013

Women do better and seem less anxious in all-female classes

Nowadays more women attend university than men. Yet, women are still under-represented in the highest levels of technical subjects such […]

  • education
  • gender
  • schooling
  • single-sex classes
  • test scores
  • Alison L. Booth
  • Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa
  • Patrick J. Nolen

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