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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development
Felfe, Christina - 2013
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087731
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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children
Makles, Anna - 2016
This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996262
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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance
Cornelissen, Thomas - 2018
children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …
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The Compositional Effect of Rigorous Teacher Evaluation on Workforce Quality
Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016
Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints. In this paper, we study how providing information to principals about teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977256
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The Effects of Student Composition on Teacher Turnover : Evidence from an Admission Reform
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2016
This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978501
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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. Using unique assessment data, we construct country-level measures of teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005432
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145393
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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement : Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316193
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The Quantity and Quality of Teachers : A Dynamic Trade-Off
Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovich, Michael - 2021
We study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers in the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model. The quantity and quality are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers' collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316411
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108093