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The 'Pupil' Factory : Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2016
schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment … strength (based on value-add measures and principal observations). The average impact of teacher specialization on student …
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Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion : A Field Experiment
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2012
.129) standard deviations. This is equivalent to increasing teacher quality by more than one standard deviation. A second treatment …
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The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes : Evidence from Teach For America
Dobbie, Will - 2011
Nearly one million American youth have participated in service programs such as Peace Corps and Teach For America. This paper provides the first causal estimate of the impact of service programs on those who serve, using data from a web-based survey of former Teach For America applicants. We...
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