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Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity : Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System

Imberman, Scott A. - 2012

Using data from a group incentive program that provides cash bonuses to teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests, we estimate the impact of incentive strength on student achievement. These awards are based on the performances of students within a grade, school and subject,...

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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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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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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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Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement

Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - 2013

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by …

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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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The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Lovenheim, Michael - 2018

Teacher collective bargaining is a highly debated feature of the education system in the US. This paper presents the …, male earnings decline by $2,134 (or 3.93%) per year and hours worked decrease by 0.42 hours per week. The earnings … estimates for men indicate that teacher collective bargaining reduces earnings by $213.8 billion in the US annually. We also …

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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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Why Public Schools Lose Teachers

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

Many school districts experience difficulties attracting and retaining teachers, and the impending retirement of a substantial fraction of public school teachers raises the specter of severe shortages in some public schools. Schools in urban areas serving economically disadvantaged and minority...

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Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings : Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas

Andrews, Rodney - 2015

This paper uses administrative data on schooling and earnings from Texas to estimate the effect of college quality on … the distribution of earnings. We proxy college quality using the college sector from which students graduate and focus on … identifying how graduating from UT-Austin, Texas A\&M or a community college affects the distribution of earnings relative to …

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