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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector : Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?
Stoddard, Christiana - 2006
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers' hours are largely chosen at the worker's discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over...
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Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
Remler, Dahlia K. - 2009
Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …
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What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers
Jacob, Brian A. - 2005
This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes …
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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014
International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. We construct country-level measures of teacher cognitive skills using unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457939
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Long-Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from OECD Countries, 1956-2004
Ohanian, Lee - 2006
We document large differences in trend changes in hours worked across OECD countries over the period 1956-2004. We then assess the extent to which these changes are consistent with the intratemporal first order condition from the neoclassical growth model. We find large and trending deviations...
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Aggregate Hours Worked in OECD Countries : New Measurement and Implications for Business Cycles
Ohanian, Lee E. - 2011
We build a new quarterly dataset of aggregate hours worked consistent with standard NIPA constructs for 14 OECD countries over the last fifty years. We find that cyclical features of labor markets across countries differ markedly from the accepted empirical facts reported in the literature based...
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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study
Edwards, Sebastian - 2014
specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational … estimation technique: we find that there is no evidence that including the right to education in the constitution has been … associated with higher test scores. The quality of education depends on socioeconomic, structural, and policy variables, such as …
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The economics of school choice
Hoxby, Caroline M. (ed.) - 2003
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Spillover Effects at School : How Black Teachers affect their White Peers' Racial Competency
Gershenson, Seth; Lindsay, Constance A.; Papageorge, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Do white teachers learn racial competency from their Black peers? We answer this question using a mixed-methods approach. Longitudinal administrative data from North Carolina show that having a Black same-grade peer significantly improves the achievement and reduces the suspension rates of white...
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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...
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