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Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance : Evidence from Impact

Dee, Thomas S. - 2013

credentials. However, there is a growing interest in whether performance-based incentives based on rigorous teacher evaluations … can improve teacher retention and performance. The evidence available to date has been mixed at best. This study presents … novel evidence on this topic based on IMPACT, the controversial teacher-evaluation system introduced in the District of …

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Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2008

In November of 2007, the New York City Department of Education assigned elementary and middle schools a letter grade (A to F) under a new accountability system. Grades were based on numeric scores derived from student achievement and other school environmental factors such as attendance, and...

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Do Good Reports Mean Higher Prices? The Impact of Hospital Compare Ratings on Cardiac Pricing

Dor, Avi - 2016

Previous research found that the initiation of Hospital Compare (HC) quality reporting had little impact on patient outcomes. However little is known about its impact on hospital prices, which may be significant since insurers are positioned to respond to quality information when engaging...

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Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added : Testing and Estimation

Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter; Pathak, Parag A.; … - 2021

Conventional value-added models (VAMs) compare average test scores across schools after regression-adjusting for students’ demographic characteristics and previous scores. This paper tests for VAM bias using a procedure that asks whether VAM estimates accurately predict the achievement...

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Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices after a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added

Imberman, Scott A. - 2015

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …

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Do Accountability and Voucher Threats Improve Low-Performing Schools?

Figlio, David N.; Rouse, Cecilia E. - 2021

In this paper we study the effects of the threat of school vouchers and school stigma in Florida on the performance of …

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Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness

Deming, David James - 2014

Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet random variation in school attendance is necessary to test the validity of VAMs, and to guide the selection of models for measuring causal effects of schools. In this paper, I use random assignment from a public...

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