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When Incentives Matter Too Much : Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information

Ahn, Thomas - 2014

acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …

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Catching Cheating Teachers : The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory

Jacob, Brian Aaron; Levitt, Steven D. - 2021

This paper reports on the results of a prospective implementation of methods for detecting teacher cheating. In Spring 2002, over 100 Chicago Public Schools elementary classrooms were selected for retesting based on the cheating detection algorithm. Classrooms prospectively identified as likely...

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Econometric Methods for Research in Education

Meghir, Costas - 2010

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

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The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability

Macartney, Hugh - 2014

This paper provides the first evidence that value-added education accountability schemes induce dynamic distortions. Extending earlier dynamic moral hazard models, I propose a new test for ratchet effects, showing that classroom inputs are distorted less when schools face a shorter horizon over...

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You Get What You Pay for : Schooling Incentives and Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2013

predict, we observe that treated children resort to their counterfactual level of school attendance and carpet weaving when …

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Labor Market Effects of School Quality : Theory and Evidence

Card, David E.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … with varying school quality. A key insight of the model is that changes in school quality may affect the characteristics of … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A …

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Ability Tracking, School Competition, and the Distribution of Educational Benefits

Epple, Dennis N.; Newlon, Elizabeth; Romano, Richard E. - 2021

To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …

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Teacher Incentives

Glewwe, Paul - 2015

absent 20% of the time. We then report on a randomized evaluation of a program that provided primary school teachers in rural …

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Pay for Percentile

Barlevy, Gadi - 2011

We analyze an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions this scheme induces teachers to allocate socially optimal levels of effort to all students....

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Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters

Rothstein, Jesse - 2012

Recent proposals would strengthen the dependence of teacher pay and retention on performance, in order to attract those who will be effective teachers and repel those who will not. I model the teacher labor market, incorporating dynamic self-selection, noisy performance measurement, and Bayesian...

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