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Africa's Skill Tragedy : Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015
Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for …. After measurement-error correction, a one-standard-deviation increase in teacher subject knowledge raises student … teacher sorting. Furthermore, teacher knowledge and school resources appear to be complements in student learning …
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Weak Markets, Strong Teachers : Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness
Nagler, Markus - 2015
How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by exploiting business cycle conditions at career start as a source of exogenous variation in the outside options of potential teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018220
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Africa's skill tragedy : does teachers' lack of knowledge lead to low student performance?
Bietenbeck, Jan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 53 (2018) 3, pp. 553-578
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