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Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools

Braga, Michela - 2019

Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...

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Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy : The Impact of Secondary School Tracks

Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - 2021

Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children's school choices …. Our focus is on the role played by different school systems in reducing or magnifying the impact of parents on children … on children choices. Using data from a cross-country survey (PISA 2003), we study the impact of parental education on …

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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe : A Long Run Perspective

Braga, Michela - 2011

In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education...

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Re-Testing PISA Students One Year Later : On School Value Added Estimation Using Oecd-Pisa

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2014

Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...

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