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Do differences in school's instruction time explain international achievement gaps in math, science, and reading? : Evidence from developed and developing countries
Lavy, Victor - 2010
his proposed education reform for the US. In this paper, I estimate the effects of instructional time on students … are very similar across groups of developed and middle-income countries and age groups. Evidence from primary and middle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003995795
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Gender differences in market competitiveness in a real workplace : evidence from performance-based pay tournaments among teachers
Lavy, Victor - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 123 (2013) 569, pp. 540-573
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009779096
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How responsive is investment in schooling to changes in redistributive policies and in returns?
Abramitzky, Ran; Lavy, Victor - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199056
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The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major
Abramitzky, Ran - 2019
We study the impact of financial incentives on higher education decisions and the choice of major. We rely on a reform whereby Israeli kibbutzim shifted from their traditional policy of equal sharing to productivity-based wages. We use for identification the staggered implementation of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480363
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Does Remedial Education at Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes and Inter-Generational Mobility
Lavy, Victor - 2018
improvement in outcomes of students from below median income families. Therefore, we conclude that remedial education program that … students were in their early 30s. Our evidence suggest that treated students experienced a 10 percentage points increase in … points in months employed, and a significant increase in intergenerational income mobility. These gains are reflecting mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480983
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Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace : Evidence from Performance-Based Pay Tournaments Among Teachers
Lavy, Victor - 2010
teachers or with both genders. I also find that the direct impact of the bonus program on students' outcomes did not vary by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758388
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The long-term spillover effects of changes in the return to schooling
Abramitzky, Ran; Lavy, Victor; Pérez, Santiago - In: Journal of public economics 196 (2021), pp. 1-16
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798388
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The Long Run Human Capital and Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations
Lavy, Victor - 2014
students, and children from higher socio-economic backgrounds. The results suggest that random disturbances during high … Israeli high school students who took a series of high stakes matriculation exams between 2000 and 2002. As a source of random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044617