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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa

Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019

-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …

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Learning-adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) : defining a new macro measure of education : background paper to the 2019 World Development Report

Filmer, Deon; Rogers, Halsey; Angrist, Noam; Sabarwal, … - 2018

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …

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How to improve education outcomes most efficiently? : a comparison of 150 interventions using the new learning-adjusted years of schooling metric

Angrist, Noam; Evans, David K.; Filmer, Deon; … - 2020

. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments to make to improve education …. Although hundreds of education interventions have been rigorously evaluated, making comparisons between the results is … for reporting gains from education interventions. The paper applies LAYS to compare the effectiveness (and cost …

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Identifying effective teachers : lessons from four classroom observation tools

Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Wane, Waly - 2020

Four different classroom observation instruments - from the Service Delivery Indicators, the Stallings Observation System, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, and the Teach classroom observation instrument - were implemented in about 100 schools across four regions of Tanzania. The research...

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Are teachers in Africa poorly paid? : evidence from 15 countries

Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei; Filmer, Deon - 2020

other formal sector workers with comparable levels of education and experience. However, in all of those countries, teachers …

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