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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
Card, David; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …
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Why Do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
Remler, Dahlia - 2009
Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …
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What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers
Jacob, Brian; Lefgren, Lars John - 2021
This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225958
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School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets : Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina
Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2011
I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low-income, high-minority share) hired fewer new teachers and...
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Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia
de Ree, Joppe - 2016
How does a large unconditional increase in salary affect employee performance in the public sector? We present the first experimental evidence on this question in the context of a unique policy change in Indonesia that led to a permanent doubling of base teacher salaries. Using a large-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001228
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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2009
Performance pay for teachers is frequently suggested as a way of improving education outcomes in schools, but the …
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Local Violence, Educational Attainment, and Teacher Pay
Grogger, Jeffrey - 2021
Violence in and around schools has drawn increasing attention lately from both the public and policy makers. Despite the importance of the problem, however, research on this topic has been limited. In this paper I analyze how local violence affects high school graduation, college attendance, and...
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Is Arbitration Addictive? Evidence from the Laboratory and the Field
Currie, Janet; Farber, Henry S. - 2021
We test for the presence of an addictive effect of arbitration (positive state dependence) using data both from a laboratory bargaining experiment and from the field. We find no evidence of state dependence in the experimental data, and we find weak evidence of positive state dependence in the...
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Do Higher Salaries Buy Better Teachers?
Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2022
Important policy decisions rest on the relationship between teacher salaries and the quality of teachers, but the evidence about the strength of any such relationship is thin. This paper relies upon the matched panel data of the UTD Texas School Project to investigate how shifts in salary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322109
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The Labor Market for Teachers Under Different Pay Schemes
Biasi, Barbara - 2018
Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies the labor market effects of a reform that gave school districts in Wisconsin full autonomy to redesign teacher pay schemes. Following the reform, some districts switched to flexible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914717