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We explore the dispersion of bonus payments of managers within and between five large firms from the German chemical sector. We use data from a yearly salary survey in these firms during the observation period 2008 to 2013. Bonus payments account for 20 percent of base salaries on average. Both...
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significantly affects the share of education majors that are employed as teachers at the time of the survey. …
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nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …
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Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy … skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others …. These results imply that the scope to improve teachers' skills varies between countries and that policy makers should take …
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We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also analyze stated preferences for season of birth using our own Amazon Mechanical Turk survey. The prevalence of quarters 2 and 3 is...
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Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...
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We investigate the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on the learning outcomes of secondary school students in … India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … characteristics in academic performance. We tackle the potential endogeneity of teacher’s subjective beliefs by controlling for …
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some teachers who applied for a fixed-wage contract ended up being paid by P4P, and vice versa. By the second year of the …
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proportion of black teachers, family fixed-effects models that compare siblings who attended the same school, and the random … assignment of students and teachers to classrooms created by the Project STAR class-size reduction experiment. …
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I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade …
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