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Instruction Time, Classroom Quality, and Academic Achievement

Rivkin, Steven G. - 2013

Many countries, American jurisdictions and charter schools have recently embraced longer school days or more time devoted to core academic classes. Recent research generally supports the notion that additional time raises achievement, though difficulties isolating an exogenous source of...

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Teachers’ Pay for Performance in the Long-Run : Effects on Students’ Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in Adulthood

Lavy, Victor - 2015

adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of … 0.25 years of schooling at age 28-30. The effects on employment and earnings were initially negative, coinciding with a …

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On the Origins of Gender Human Capital Gaps : Short and Long Term Consequences of Teachers’ Stereotypical Biases

Lavy, Victor - 2015

implications for occupational choices and earnings at adulthood, because enrollment in advanced courses in math and science in high … heterogeneous, being larger for children from families where the father is more educated than the mother and larger on girls from …

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The Evolution of Charter School Quality

Baude, Patrick - 2014

Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of...

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Persistency in Teachers’ Grading Bias and Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes : University Admissions Exams and Choice of Field of Study

Lavy, Victor - 2019

Recent research has focused on what shapes gender differences in academic achievement and students' choice of university field of study. In this paper we examine how teachers' gender role attitudes and stereotypes influence the gender gap by affecting the school environment. We explore the...

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Dynamic effects of teacher turnover on the quality of instruction

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Rivkin, Steven G.; Schiman, Jeffrey C. - In: Economics of education review 55 (2016), pp. 132-148

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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2022

Considerable controversy surrounds the impact of schools and teachers on the achievement of students. This paper disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools. Unique matched panel data from...

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What is the Tradeoff between Smaller Classes and Teacher Quality?

Jepsen, Christopher; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of California's class size reduction program on teacher quality and student achievement in an effort to gain a comprehensive understanding of the impact of a large-scale decrease in class size. It uses year-to-year differences in class size generated by...

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What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Lavy, Victor - 2011

This paper measures empirically the relationship between classroom teaching practices and student achievements. Based on primary- and middle-school data from Israel, I find very strong evidence that two important elements of teaching practices cause student achievements to improve. In...

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Does Special Education Raise Academic Achievement for Students with Disabilities?

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2021

While special education has become a hotly debated issue of school policy, most of the discussion has centered on the … such programs or possible interactions with the provision of regular education. This study, building on the unique data of … the Harvard/UTD Texas Schools Project provides direct evidence on the effectiveness of special education programs. The …

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