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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...
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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 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...
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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 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 …-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian 6th-grade dataset that tested both students and their teachers in two …
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...
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Heterogeneous Peer Effects and Rank Concerns : Theory and Evidence
Tincani, Michela - 2017
Using a theoretical model where students care about achievement rank, I study effort choices in the classroom and show … construct a longitudinal multi-cohort dataset of students, with data on the geographic propagation of building damages from the … students at the tails of the predicted cost of effort distribution benefit from higher dispersion in peer cost of effort, as …
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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - In East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024593
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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition : Evidence from the Greek Famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316222
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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2010
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583697