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Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement
Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew C.; … - 2022
We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multidimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
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Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage : Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna - 2019
Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...
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The Impact of All-Day Schools on Student Achievement - Evidence from Extending School Days in German Primary Schools
Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students with municipality-level information on all-day school...
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The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students : The Role of Pre-College Choices
Tincani, Michela Maria; Kosse, Fabian; Miglino, Enrico - 2022
Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
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Knowledge Intensity and Gender Wage Gaps : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
BARZA, Radu - 2020
Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the … entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of … industries and occupations. We find that employees in high-skilled occupations and industries experience lower gender wage gaps …
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Is There a Gender Wage Gap in Online Labor Markets? Evidence from Over 250,000 Projects and 2.5 Million Wage Bill Proposals
Gomez-Herrera, Estrella - 2019
We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in one of the largest EU online labor markets, PeoplePerHour. Our unique … final agreement between employers and successful candidates. Using Heckman and OLS estimation methods we provide empirical … evidence for a statistically significant 4% gender wage gap among workers, at the project level. We also find that female …
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Taxing the Gender Gap : Labor Market Effects of a Payroll Tax Cut for Women in Italy
Rubolino, Enrico - 2022
labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …
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When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Buurman, Margaretha - 2020
We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback....
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Estimating Income Responses to Tax Changes : A Dynamic Panel Data Approach
Holmlund, Bertil; Söderström, Martin - 2021
Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused on the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax rate. We offer new evidence on this matter by making use of a large panel of Swedish tax payers over...
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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations
Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - 2021
A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...
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