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-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that schools in labor markets with better outside options for teachers saw relatively … higher increases in teacher pay. Schools in these areas relatively increase their spending on teachers, have higher teacher … resources, by preventing such schools from retaining their teachers. …
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The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest … Schools of a Russell Group University in the UK. As well as estimating Fixed Effects models on the population of postgraduate … (RDD). We find that class size does impact grades adversely overall; and the policy aimed at reducing class size impacts …
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We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …
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In this paper we investigate whether higher education (HE) produces non-pecuniary returns via a reduction in the consumption of health-damaging substances. In particular, the paper focuses on studying the smoking intensity of British individuals. We use data on current smokers from the 1970...
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We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As …
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the UK …
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The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 changed the Higher Education system in the UK by giving all polytechnics …-reform polytechnic graduates are not statistically different from average wages of post-reform graduates of traditional universities any …
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The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 changed the Higher Education system in the UK by giving all polytechnics …-reform polytechnic graduates are not statistically different from average wages of post-reform graduates of traditional universities any …
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We study career trajectories of university researchers in Europe, with a particular emphasis on the speed of career progression by gender. Using the panel data collected by the MORE project (Mobility Survey of the Higher Education Sector) - a longitudinal database that gathers survey responses...
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how they will respond if a child brought home bad grades, parents state that they would be less likely to punish their …
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