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Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT
Wyckoff, James; Dee, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Teachers in the United States are compensated largely on the basis of fixed schedules that reward experience and credentials. However, there is a growing interest in whether performance-based incentives based on rigorous teacher evaluations can improve teacher retention and performance. The...
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Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina
Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Vigdor, Jacob; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
longitudinal data on teachers, we estimate hazard models that identify the impact of this differential pay by comparing turnover … eligible and barely-ineligible schools. Results suggest that this bonus payment was sufficient to reduce mean turnover rates of …
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Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation
Koedel, Cory; Betts, Julian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Value-added measures of teacher quality may be sensitive to the quantitative properties of the student tests upon which they are based. This paper focuses on the sensitivity of value-added to test-score-ceiling effects. Test-score ceilings are increasingly common in testing instruments across...
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Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching
Herrmann, Mariesa A.; Rockoff, Jonah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
A significant amount of work time is lost each year due to worker absence, but evidence on the productivity losses from absenteeism remains scant due to difficulties with identification. In this paper, we use uniquely detailed data on the timing, duration, and cause of absences among teachers to...
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Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement
Wyckoff, James; Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pamela; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers. Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality teacher preparation is the most promising approach. Most agree, however, that we lack a strong...
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The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools
Wyckoff, James; Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The gap between the qualifications of New York City teachers in high-poverty schools and low-poverty schools has narrowed substantially since 2000. Most of this gap-narrowing resulted from changes in the characteristics of newly hired teachers, and largely has been driven by the virtual...
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The Long Reach of Childhood Health and Circumstance: Evidence from the Whitehall II Study
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
are all predictive of entry grade and promotion to higher grade in Whitehall. Even with controls for entry grade or …
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Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service
Bó, Ernesto Dal; Finan, Frederico; Rossi, Martín - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...
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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries
Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...
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Scientific Productivity and Academic Promotion: A Study on French and Italian Physicists
Lissoni, Francesco; MAIRESSE, Jacques; Montobbio, Fabio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
panel of about 3600 French and Italian academic physicists active in 2004-05. Endogeneity problems concerning promotion and … individual scientist's probability of promotion to her present rank, and a productivity regression estimates the effects of age … promotion. Furthermore we show that the stop-and-go policies of recruitment and promotion, typical of the Italian and French …
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