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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015
the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467809
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895090
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Does evaluating teachers make a difference?
Briole, Simon; Maurin, Eric - 2019
In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have nonetheless a direct impact on teachers' career...
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Should value-added models control for student absences?
Gershenson, Seth - 2016
controlling for student absences in teacher evaluation systems' value-added models is a relatively inexpensive way to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480822
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Carrot and stick? : impact of a low-stakes school accountability program on student achievement
Woo, Seokjin; Lee, Soohyung; Kim, Kyunghee - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Economics Letters
A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support to low-performing schools but has no direct punishment scheme for recipients who do not exhibit...
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Program evaluation and spillover effects
Angelucci, Manuela; Di Maro, Vincenzo - 2015
evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a … such that they explain the cause of these effects and whom they affect. Such an evaluation design is necessary to avoid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517040
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The evaluation of community-based interventions : group randomization, limits and alternatives
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Baltussen, Rob M. P. M.; … - 2000
The context of community-based interventions presents formidable problems for any evaluation analysis. Group …
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When do teachers respond to student feedback? : evidence from a field experiment
Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2020
receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the …
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Conceptualizing grade inflation
Tyner, Adam; Gershenson, Seth - 2020
Evidence of grade inflation in U.S. high schools is often misinterpreted due to confusion about how grade inflation is, or should be, defined. This note clarifies the implications of recent research on grade inflation in two ways. First, we situate the evidence by defining three distinct types...
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School performance, score inflation and economic geography
Battistin, Erich; Neri, Lorenzo - 2017
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...
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