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Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach
Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265301
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Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case
Krause, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on tracking timing and track allocation mechanisms reveal that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990917
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The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe
Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jo; Marconi, Gabriele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national governments’ policies foster this contribution across Europe. The study stresses the relevance of policies which are ‘empowering’ for higher education institutions, or in...
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Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959608
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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Hirshleifer, Sarojini; McKenzie, David; Almeida, Rita K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...
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How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; Hull, Peter D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates of the effects of charter school attendance on middle-schoolers in … exclusion restriction in such comparisons. Estimates for a large sample of takeover schools in the New Orleans Recovery School … for a middle school, grandfathered students see achievement gains at least as large as the gains for students assigned …
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In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno
Angrist, Joshua; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
scores, a finding revealed in a natural experiment that randomly assigns school monitors. IV estimates also show that small … arise even in assessment systems with few NCLB-style accountability concerns. …
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Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston’s Metco Program
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Kevin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent …
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