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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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Asymmetric Yardstick Competition : Traditional Procurement Versus Public-Private Partnerships

Liddo, Giuseppe Di - 2019

We investigate yardstick competition between local jurisdictions in which pure rent-seeking incumbents undertake an identical infrastructure project choosing be- tween two contractual arrangements with different financing profiles, namely traditional procurement (TP) and public-private...

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Under/Over-Investment and Early Renegotiation in Public-Private Partnerships

Danau, Daniel - 2019

We consider a public-private partnership in an infrastructure project, which requires specialised expertise during the construction stage for the infrastructure to operationalise. This entails that, after an investment is made to begin building the infrastructure, its construction is completed...

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Public-private partnership and schooling outcomes across countries

Woessmann, Ludger - 2006

The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...

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Migration and networks: Does education matter more than gender?

Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - 2010

at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …

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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...

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Who Teaches the Teachers? A RCT of Peer-to-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools

Murphy, Richard - 2020

This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and fifth...

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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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Measuring and Summarizing the Multiple Dimensions of Teacher Effectiveness

Mulhern, Christine; Opper, Isaac - 2021

There is an emerging consensus that teachers impact multiple student outcomes, but it remains unclear how to summarize these multiple dimensions of teacher effectiveness into simple metrics that can be used for research or personnel decisions. Here, we discuss the implications of estimating...

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Human Capital Depreciation

Dinerstein, Michael; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Yannelis, … - 2021

Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in non-employment. We overcome these challenges with new administrative data on...

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