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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...
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A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes. This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...
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adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …
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teachers or with both genders. I also find that the direct impact of the bonus program on students' outcomes did not vary by …
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ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …
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privileged students who are the first in their families to attend a university. The program impacted students from localities up …
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week harms test performance. Second, these effects are evidenced for high and low-ability students, boys and girls. They … likelihood of students behaving dishonestly in exams …
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. Teachers were rewarded with cash bonuses for improving their students' performance on high-school matriculation exams. Two … have a significant effect on directly affected students with some minor spillover effects on untreated subjects. The … improvements appear to derive from changes in teaching methods, after-school teaching, and increased responsiveness to students …
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identification, we rely on the random assignments of teachers and students to classes in primary schools. Our results suggest that … on girls'. Such gender biases also impact students' enrollment in advanced level math courses in high school …
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' conduct with their students improve marginally academic performance, especially among boys. Apart from identifying "what works … classroom production function of knowledge. Second, it is best to target the two teaching practices differentially to students …
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