Showing 1 - 10 of 672
with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209
acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458345
acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050284
The paper addresses the two-fold rise in teacher-student ratio in the American K-12 school system in the post-World War …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181051
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009563099
education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316411
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003738221
This paper provides the first evidence that value-added education accountability schemes induce dynamic distortions. Extending earlier dynamic moral hazard models, I propose a new test for ratchet effects, showing that classroom inputs are distorted less when schools face a shorter horizon over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458749
predict, we observe that treated children resort to their counterfactual level of school attendance and carpet weaving when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459382
of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462650