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A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
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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School Choice and Quality
Checchi, Daniele; Jappelli, Tullio - 2003
The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a representative survey of the Italian population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children attendance of public and private schools and parents? self-assessment of the quality of public schools in the city of residence....
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The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption: Evidence from a "xeroxed" exam
Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012
examine its effect on students' scores on the high-stakes national exam which occurs at the end of high school - the … corrupt activities by public school staff, which was driven by financial incentives. These results match an unprecedentedly … high number of allegations of fraud and bribery against school principals, which earned the 2010 Baccalaureate the title of …
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School Vouchers Italian Style
Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2005
School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we …
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Private school quality in Italy
Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele; Oppedisano, Veruska - 2007
We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … Italian secondary school graduates, interviewed 3 year after graduation. In these data, the impact of observable talent …
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To segregate or to integrate: education politics and democracy
de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2007
The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...
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Estimating the firm's labor supply curve in a new monopsony framework: school teachers in Missouri
Ransom, Michael R.; Sims, David P. - 2009
public school districts in Missouri. We take advantage of the plausibly exogenous variation in pre-negotiated district salary … 3.7, suggesting the presence of significant market power for school districts, especially over more experienced teachers …
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Principal accountability at private secondary schools
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2007
Increasing interest in voucher programs and privatizing public schools reveals a commonly-held belief that private schools are better able to produce a quality education. While state and national standards do not directly affect these schools, their private control yields strong student...
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How long do teacher effects persist?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2007
Previous findings from experimental and non-experimental studies have demonstrated that teachers differ in their effectiveness. In addition, evidence from non-experimental studies has indicated that teacher effects can last up to five years. This study used high-quality data from a four-year...
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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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