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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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Repayment versus investment conditions and exclusivity in lending contracts

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2009

Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) condition future loans on the implementation of some policy action (‘investment’). We build an...

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The effects of credit status on college attainment and college completion

Gicheva, Dora; Ionescu, Felicia; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2012

College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance college. Access to these credit lines and the interest rates charged on these loans can vary significantly across credit scores. In this paper, we analyze if credit status, as...

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Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics

Blundell, Richard W. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments … evaluation literature. A workhorse simulation model of education returns is used throughout the paper to discuss and illustrate … estimation and simulation results. -- Evaluation methods …

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Strike three : umpires' demand for discrimination

Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008

We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers … generally and apply it to several examples. -- Wage equations ; worker evaluation ; strategic interactions ; economics of sports …

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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...

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Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life : new evidence from panel data quantile regressions

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - 2009

We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...

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School responsiveness to quality rankings : an empirical analysis of secondary education in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; Wiel, Karen van der - 2010

This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a newspaper (Trouw), rather than public interventions. Our research design exploits the substantial...

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Ranking the schools : how quality information affects school choice in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; Wiel, Karen van der - 2010

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high...

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