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A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and the UK), but also by estimating their wage penalty relative to what they could …
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We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers … results also indicate that the wages of individuals in the beginning of their labour market career are the most affected by a …
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This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …
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The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...
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We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...
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This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...
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A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that … reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically … from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile …
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greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …
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