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Who Teaches the Teachers? A RCT of Peer-to-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools
Murphy, Richard - 2020
Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a … masks large heterogeneity; in small schools, which would have no choice over which teachers would be involved, we find … negative impacts of the training (0.1-0.18SD), whereas we find positive impacts in larger schools (0.06-0.17SD). We conclude …
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Financial Education in Schools : A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies
Kaiser, Tim - 2019
We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatment has, on average, a significant and sizeable impact on financial knowledge (+0.25 SD), similar to...
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COVID-Induced School Closures in the US and Germany : Long-Term Distributional Effects
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022
Almost all countries worldwide closed schools at the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis. I document that schooling time …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However … increased inequality and decreased intergenerational mobility …
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Ready for School? Effects on School Starters of Establishing School Psychology Offices in Norway
Flatø, Martin; Bratsberg, Bernt; Kotsadam, Andreas; … - 2023
We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced ‘maturity testing’ to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age...
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On human capital formation with exit options : comment and new results
Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261404
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Relocation of the Rich: Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes from Spanish Reforms
Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk - 2018
A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice....
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Wealth Tax Mobility and Tax Coordination
Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk; Martínez-Toledano, Clara - 2024
We study the effects of decentralized wealth taxation on mobility and the effectiveness of tax coordination at … positive tax rates. We find the mobility responses to wealth taxes are within the range of prior estimates with respect to … income taxes. However, wealth tax mobility responses generate losses to personal income tax revenues that are six times …
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State Taxation of Nonresident Income and the Location of Work
Agrawal, David R.; Tester, Kenneth - 2023
with superstar phenomenon, increases with earnings. Our results suggest a novel margin of mobility responses for top …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290263
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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life
Wrede, Matthias - 2012
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...
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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...
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