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Which Program for Whom?Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness ofPublic Sponsored Training Programs in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate theemployment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s.Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methodsin a dynamic, multiple...
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Dann warens nur noch vier Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch?
Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen grundsätzlich neustrukturiert und systematisch evaluiert worden. Die vorliegenden Evaluationsberichte derersten drei Hartz-Gesetze belegen nun vielfach, welche Instrumente der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik sich durch ihre Wirksamkeit...
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Education Research and Administrative Data
Figlio, David N. - 2015
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012036
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g., pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the...
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Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching : An American Case Study
Radchenko, Natalia - 2020
This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to …
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If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9 : Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Bertoni, Marco - 2020
document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of …
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Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?
Briole, Simon - 2019
In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have nonetheless a direct impact on teachers' career...
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna - 2015
the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this …
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School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography
Battistin, Erich - 2017
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...
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A Walk on the Wild Side : 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations
Bagues, Manuel - 2017
. Second, we show that authors who publish in these journals are more likely to receive a positive evaluation when (randomly …
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