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Chapter 13 Using Wages to Infer School Quality
Speakman, Robert; Welch, Finis - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 813-864). 2006
) interstate differences in wages are not consistent with a simple school quality–wage relation; we cannot assume a simple national … school quality evaluation appears insufficient to resolve the ambiguous link between school quality and wages. In addition … finally, (7) it is unclear whether the positive correlations between wages and either school expenditures or teachers' wages …
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The impact of age within academic year on adult outcomes
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013
Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the start of the academic year. Previous research has shown that the difference is most pronounced early in pupils' school lives, but remains evident and statistically significant in...
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Educational attainment, age and the consequences of job loss : empirical evidence from Germany
Effenberger, Alexandra; Lauber, Verena; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2019
significant. Across all education groups, unemployment depresses subsequent wages more strongly at a higher age. However, the …
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …
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How effective are financial incentives for teachers? : linking teacher pay to student performance has become popular, but evidence on its effectiveness is mixed
Imberman, Scott A. - 2015
Concerns about poor student performance have led schools to diverge from traditional teacher compensation and base a portion of pay on student outcomes. In the US, the number of school districts adopting such performancebased financial incentives has increased by more than 40% since 2004....
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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools
Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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Chapter 9. The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight-hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
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Immigrant earnings profiles in the presence of human capital investment : measuring cohort and macro effects
Green, David A.; Worswick, Christopher - 2004
Considering immigrant earnings in the context of post-arrival human capital investment implies: cohort quality should be defined in terms of the present value of the whole earnings profile; and, an appropriate definition of macro effects is obtained using the earnings profile of the native born...
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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