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Maresa Sprietsma studied economics at the Universite Catholique de Louvain and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. From 2001 to 2006 she was a teaching assistant and PhD student at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. Since November 2006 she has been working at the labour and human resources management department of the ZEW. Her main research interests are education economics and micro-econometric evaluation.
She defended her thesis "Improving student performance : 3 microeconometric studies" at the Université Catholique de Louvain in March 2007.
Maresa Sprietsma is currently on parental leave.
Sprietsma, Maresa (forthcoming), Computers as pedagogical tools in Brazil: a pseudo-panel analysis, Education Economics.
Sprietsma, Maresa (2010), The effect of relative age in the first grade of primary school on long-term scholastic results: international comparative evidence using PISA 2003, Education Economics 18(1).
Sprietsma, Maresa (2008), Regional school choice and school selectivity: how do they relate to student performance? Evidence from PISA 2003, European Journal of Comparative Economics. Vol.5, Nr. 2, 155-178.
Sprietsma, Maresa and Fabio Waltenberg (2009), The effect of teachers' wages on student achievement. Evidence from Brazil, in: Jürgen Backhaus, Raul Eamets, Jüri Sepp , Advances in the economics of education: on markets and post-transformation issues., Münster.
Horstschräer, Julia and Maresa Sprietsma (2010), The Effects of the Bologna Process on College Enrollment and Drop-out Rates, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-018, Mannheim. Download
Sprietsma, Maresa (2009), Discrimination in Grading? Experimental Evidence from Primary School, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-074, Mannheim. Download
Coneus, Katja and Maresa Sprietsma (2009), Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Early Childhood, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-038, Mannheim. Download
Sprietsma, Maresa (2007), Computers as Pedagogical Tools in Brazil: A Pseudo-panel Analysis, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-040, Mannheim. Download
Sprietsma, Maresa (2007), The Effect of Relative Age in the First Grade of Primary School on Long-Term Scholastic Results: International Comparative Evidence using PISA 2003, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-037, Mannheim., erschienen in: Education Economics Download
Sprietsma, Maresa (2006), Regional school comparison and school choice : how do they relate to student performance?, ECON Discussion Paper, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve. Download
Mühlenweg, Andrea, Maresa Sprietsma and Julia Horstschräer (2010), Humankapitalpotenziale der gestuften Hochschulabschlüsse in Deutschland - Auswertungen zu Studienbeteiligung, Studienabbrüchen, Mobilität und Eingangsselektion, Studien zum deutschen Innovationssystem, Nr. 14-2010, Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation, Mannheim. Download
01.-07.2008: Intensive course (Stand-in professors) "Economics of Education",
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
HS 2009: Lecture "Economics of Education",
Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics - University of Mannheim
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