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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

Chetty, Raj; Friedman, John N.; Rockoff, Jonah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Are teachersʼ impacts on studentsʼ test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value-added (VA) measures provide unbiased estimates of teachersʼ causal impacts on student achievement. We test for bias...

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Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

Rockoff, Jonah E.; Turner, Lesley J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

. We find no evidence that these grades were related to the percentage of students tested, implying that accountability can …

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The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools

Lindert, Peter H.; Go, Sun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Three factors help to explain why school enrollments in the Northern United States were higher than those in the South and in most of Europe by 1850. One was affordability: the northern states had higher real incomes, cheaper teachers, and greater local tax support. The second was the greater...

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The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina

Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Holbein, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

of a market model. We examine trends in the mix of students enrolled in charter schools, the racial imbalance of charter … public schools serving similar students over time. Taken together, our findings imply that the charter schools in North … Carolina are increasingly serving the interests of relatively able white students in racially imbalanced schools. …

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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?

Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

from China. We find strong evidence that peer effects exist and operate in a positive and nonlinear manner; reducing the …

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Home Production and the Macro Economy-Some Lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from Transition Russia

Gronau, Reuben - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Recent years witnessed a flourishing of literature on the implication of shifts from home- production to market production on the macro economy, and in particular, the real business cycle. This literature employs calibration techniques to emulate the fluctuations in market output, labor and...

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Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Women's Suffrage on Public Education

Carruthers, Celeste K.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Gains in 20th century real wages and reductions in the black-white wage gap have been linked to the mid-century ascent of school quality. With a new dataset uniquely appropriate to identifying the impact of female voter enfranchisement on education spending, we attribute up to one-third of the...

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The In-State Equity Bias of State Pension Plans

Brown, Jeffrey Robert; Pollet, Joshua M.; Weisbenner, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper provides evidence on the investment behavior of 27 state pension plans that manage their own equity portfolios. Even though these state plans typically hold broadly diversified portfolios, they substantially over-weight the equity of companies that are headquartered in-state. The...

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Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees: Does it Affect Retirement?

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job-lock" in the private sector. I use the introduction of...

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The Effects of Retiree Health Insurance Plan Characteristics on Retirees' Choice and Employers' Costs

Clark, Robert; Morrill, Melinda; Vanderweide, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

To moderate the rate of growth of retiree health insurance costs, employers can modify plans and move retirees into less expensive plans. We examine policy modifications implemented by the North Carolina State Health Plan. We investigate whether incentives produce the desired plan elections and...

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