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Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside of the Classroom?
Chingos, Matthew M. - 2010
We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001–02 and 2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers leaving for other industries, a 1 standard deviation increase in...
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The Effects of Test-Based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida
Schwerdt, Guido - 2013
A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …
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