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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017697
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Speaking in Numbers : The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance Among Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2021
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students’ reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315517
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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity‐quality trade‐off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...
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Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2017
This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956802
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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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Skills, Signals, and Employability : An Experimental Investigation
Piopiunik, Marc - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924449
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...
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Why Does Height Matter for Educational Attainment? Evidence from German Pre-Teen Children
Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim K. - 2021
Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316231
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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination : A Cross-European Analysis
Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim K. - 2021
Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316340
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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination: A Cross-European Analysis
Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009
Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029260