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Africa's Skill Tragedy : Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015

student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To … circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student heterogeneity, we exploit variation within students across math and reading …

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The Effects of Student Composition on Teacher Turnover : Evidence from an Admission Reform

Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2016

admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in …

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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 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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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 …

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Technology Adoption in Education : Usage, Spillovers and Student Achievement

Bergman, Peter - 2016

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted by their end users and are effective in practice. This paper studies the adoption, diffusion, and effects of one type of technology that is increasingly ubiquitous:...

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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 Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2016

-run outcomes of students. Using American Community Survey (ACS) data linked to each respondent's state of birth, we examine labor … worsens the future labor market outcomes of students: living in a state that has a duty-to-bargain law for all 12 grade … that support collective bargaining for teachers have adverse long-term labor market consequences for students …

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Teacher Unions, Teacher Pay and Student Performance in India : A Pupil Fixed Effects Approach

Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between teacher unionization, student achievement and teachers' pay using a cross-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within-pupil variation in achievement and find that union...

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Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2013

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of...

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Is Traditional Teaching Really All That Bad? A Within-Student Between-Subject Approach

Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2021

Recent studies conclude that teachers are important for student learning but it remains uncertain what actually determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the relationship between lecture style teaching and student...

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