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Same work, lower grade? : student ethnicity and teachers' subjective assessments
Ewijk, Reyn van - 2010
Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority...
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The effects of student feedback to teachers : evidence from a field experiment
Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2018
We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as...
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The hidden divide : school segregation of teachers in the Netherlands
Friperson, Rafiq; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2023 - This version: June 2023
We use Dutch register data to document the understudied phenomenon of teacher segregation. We show that teachers in primary and secondary schools in the four largest cities of the country - Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht - are segregated in terms of their migration and social...
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Total factor productivity and the Mongolian transition
Chessa, Antonio G.; Schouwstra, Marije C. - 2005
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Total factor productivity and the Mongolian transition
Chessa, Antonio G.; Schouwstra, Marije C. - 2005
economy in those countries. In the case of Mongolia, not only non-viable enterprises closed down, but many possibly viable … into the development of TFP in Mongolia. Simulations are performed to see what happens with TFP if not the le! ast … Productivity of Mongolia was tested not only for errors in all estimated values but also for measurement errors in the data. It was …
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Mining matters : natural resource extraction and local business constraints
Haas, Ralph de; Poelhekke, Steven - 2016
We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
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Time patterns of work and sickness absence : unobserved workplace effects in a multi-state duration model
Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - 1996
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Learning from praise : evidence from a field experiment with teachers
Cotofan, Maria - 2019
Non-monetary incentives such as praise are common-place, but their effects on workers performing cognitively-complex tasks remain largely unknown. I expand the teacher incentive literature through a field experiment measuring how repeated public praise for the best teachers impacts teacher...
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Where would we be without trains? : A queueing modelling to determine train delays
Dijk, Nicolaas M. van - 1994
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