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The three i's of public schools : irrelevant inputs, insufficient resources and inefficiency

Henderson, Daniel J.; Simar, Léopold; Wang, Le - 2016

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … in school districts. Moreover, the level of test scores, commonly used as a measure of school effectiveness, (while … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school …

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Does increased teacher accountability decrease leniency in grading?

Puhani, Patrick A.; Yang, Philip - 2019

implementation of these standards increases scoring differences between the two school types by about 25 percent. …

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Employee absence : an organizational perspective

Eskildsen, Jacob Kjær; Frederiksen, Anders; Løkke, … - 2018

We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation to attend work, we show that absence is predominantly an individualized phenomenon. Because the...

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Promotion incentives in the public sector : evidence from Chinese schools

Karachiwalla, Naureen; Park, Albert - 2017

and middle school teachers. Consistent with theory, high wage increases for promotion are associated with better …

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Pay for percentile

Barlevy, Gadi; Neal, Derek A. - 2009

We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions our scheme induces teachers to allocate socially optimal levels of effort to all students....

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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country

Cigno, Alessandro - 2011

outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child …

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Perceived ability and school choices : experimental evidence and scale-up effects

Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Pariguana, Marco - 2023

This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism … graduate on time from high school at a higher rate. We also quantify the effect of a counterfactual and yet feasible …

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Schooling and self-control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2024

While there is an established positive relationship between self-control and education, the direction of causality remains a matter of debate. We make a contribution to resolving this issue by exploiting a series of Australian and German educational reforms that increased minimum education...

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Does ethnic diversity in schools affect occupational choices?

Pregaldini, Damiano; Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect occupational choice. Using longitudinal administrative data and leveraging variation in ethnic composition across cohorts within schools, we find evidence for two opposing...

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To segregate or to integrate : education politics and democracy

De la Croix, David (contributor); … - 2007

The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...

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