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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004
Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...
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Teacher subject knowledge, didactic skills, and student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Bietenbecker, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022
We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include individual-level information on student achievement and...
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A partial identification approach to identifying the determinants of human capital accumulation: an application to teachers
Mehta, Nirav - 2022
This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers’ careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learning-by-Doing (LBD) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174484
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Measuring quality for use in incentive schemes : the case of "shrinkage" estimators
Mehta, Nirav - 2018
Researchers commonly "shrink" raw quality measures based on statistical criteria. This paper studies when and how this transformation’s statistical properties would confer economic benefits to a utility-maximizing decisionmaker across common asymmetric information environments. I develop the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882236
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Alternative measures of teachers' value added and impact on short and longterm outcomes : evidence from random assignment
Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024
A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541111
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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017
While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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Optimal policy and the risk properties of human capital reconsidered
Anderberg, Dan (contributor) - 2008
This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790631
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Educational and wage risk : social insurance vs. quality of education
Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008
In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806025