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Nechyba, Thomas J. - 1999

This paper presents a multi-district model that can be calibrated to data reflecting housing market conditions, public school finance mechanisms and private school markets. Simulations are undertaken to investigate the impact of private school vouchers. Households that differ in both their...

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The economics of school choice

Hoxby, Caroline M. (ed.) - 2003

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The Design of Performance Pay in Education

Neal, Derek - 2011

This chapter analyzes the design of incentive schemes in education while reviewing empirical studies that evaluate performance pay programs for educators. Several themes emerge. First, it is difficult to use one assessment system to create both educator performance metrics and measures of...

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Econometric Methods for Research in Education

Meghir, Costas - 2010

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

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The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains

Jacob, Brian A. - 2008

initially motivate this strategy in the context of teacher quality, but then generalize the model to consider educational … interventions more generally. Using administrative data that links students and teachers, we construct measures of teacher … effectiveness and then estimate the persistence of these teacher value-added measures on student test scores. We find that teacher …

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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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When Incentives Matter Too Much : Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information

Ahn, Thomas - 2014

When economic agents make decisions on the basis of an information set containing both a continuous variable and a discrete signal based on that variable, theory suggests that the signal should have no bearing on behavior conditional on the variable itself. Numerous empirical studies, many based...

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The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability

Macartney, Hugh - 2014

distortions, with teacher reallocations playing a secondary role …

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Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters

Rothstein, Jesse - 2012

Recent proposals would strengthen the dependence of teacher pay and retention on performance, in order to attract those … who will be effective teachers and repel those who will not. I model the teacher labor market, incorporating dynamic self … the evaluation of alternative teacher contracts. Typical bonus policies have very small effects on selection. Firing …

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Pay for Percentile

Barlevy, Gadi - 2011

We analyze an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions this scheme induces teachers to allocate socially optimal levels of effort to all students....

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