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Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside of the Classroom?
Chingos, Matthew M. - 2010
2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers leaving for other …
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The Quantity and Quality of Teachers : A Dynamic Trade-Off
Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovich, Michael - 2021
education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316411
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp - 2009
enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764966
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Teacher Unions, Teacher Pay and Student Performance in India : A Pupil Fixed Effects Approach
Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - 2008
evidence this could be due to the unobservables not controlled for by this procedure. A school fixed effects equation of …
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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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Africa's Skill Tragedy : Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015
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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Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - 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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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...
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Is Traditional Teaching Really All That Bad? A Within-Student Between-Subject Approach
Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316379
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The Effect of School Starting Age on Special Needs Incidence and Child Development into Adolescence
Balestra, Simone - 2018
Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child …'s probability of developing special educational needs in early grades. We find that starting school at a relatively older age …
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