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This paper employs a rich collection of survey and administrative datasets, including linked school-teacher payroll data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of 2008-2010, immediately after territorial reform. We...
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The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
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We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
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This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
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teachers are not aligned with test scores, with the disparities in grading exceeding those in testing outcomes and uniformly … as girls on reading, math and science tests are nevertheless graded less favorably by their teachers, but this less …
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This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical … characteristics, are assessed using a matching methodology (Ñopo, 2008). Teachers' underpayment is found to be stronger than what has … been previously reported in the literature, especially among pre-school and primary teachers. Nonetheless, behind the …
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The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that features a long school day, an extended school year, selective...
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How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences … evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between circa 1997 and circa 2007, of teachers …
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This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the unexpected wage cut in May 2010 that affected all...
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potential for misclassifying teachers as high- or low-performing can be substantial. Misspecifying dynamic relationships can …
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