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Estimating Teacher Effectiveness From Two-Year Changes in Students’ Test Scores

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

Using a dataset covering over 10,000 Australian primary school teachers and over 90,000 pupils, I estimate how effective teachers are in raising students’ test scores from one exam to the next. Since the exams are conducted only every two years, it is necessary to take account of the...

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Estimating Returns to Education: Three Natural Experiment Techniques Compared

Leigh, Andrew; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

We compare three quasi-experimental approaches to estimating the returns to schooling in Australia: instrumenting schooling using month of birth, instrumenting schooling using changes in compulsory schooling laws, and comparing outcomes for twins. With annual pre-tax income as our measure of...

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Weak Tests and Strong Conclusions: A Re-Analysis of Gun Deaths and the Australian Firearms Buyback

Neill, Christine; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

impact on the rate of gun suicide or accidental death by shooting. We revisit their analysis, and find that their results are … substitution and for underlying trends in suicide or homicide rates are misleading. The high variability in the data and the …

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Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries

Leigh, Andrew; Jencks, Christopher - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

share of the richest 10 percent affect homicide or suicide rates. …

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.

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Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

What is the impact of raising the minimum wage on family incomes? Analysing the characteristics of low wage workers, I …-school qualifications and overseas born. About one-third of near-minimum wage workers are the sole worker in their household. Due to low … labour force participation rates in the poorest households, minimum wage workers are most likely to be in middle …

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