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The Rise of Services : The Role of Skills, Scale, and Female Labor Supply
Buera, Francisco J. - 2013
This paper quantifies the roles of increases in the demand for skill-intensive output, the efficient scale of service production, and female labor supply in the growth of services. We extend the Buera and Kaboski (2012a,b) model to a two-person household, incorporating a joint decision on home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076916
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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014
International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. We construct country-level measures of teacher cognitive skills using unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040536
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The Effect of Occupational Licensing Stringency on the Teacher Quality Distribution
Larsen, Bradley; Ju, Ziao; Kapor, Adam; Yu, Chuan - 2022
Concerned about the low academic ability of public school teachers, in the 1990s and 2000s, some states increased licensing stringency to weed out low-quality candidates, while others decreased restrictions to attract high-quality candidates. We offer a theoretical model justifying both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090302
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers Ii : Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Chetty, Raj - 2013
Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has sparked debate partly because of a lack of evidence on whether high value-added (VA) teachers who raise students' test scores improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076185
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Who Benefits from Kipp?
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010
Charter schools affiliated with the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms and a focus on traditional reading and math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147998
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The Declining Quality of Teachers
Lakdawalla, Darius N. - 2021
Concern is often voiced about the declining quality of American schoolteachers. This paper shows that, while the relative quality of teachers is declining, this decline is a result of technical change, which improves the specialized knowledge of skilled workers outside teaching, but not the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249350
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The Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry-Level Earnings
Betts, Julian R.; Grogger, Jeffrey - 2021
Despite recent theoretical work and proposals from educational reformers, there is little empirical work on the effects of higher grading standards. In this paper we use data from the High School and Beyond survey to estimate the effects of grading standards on student achievement, educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220077
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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics : Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010
with superior observed characteristics and with greater public good provision. This improvement in leadership competence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758392
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Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Knowledge : Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry
Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - 2022
What role do hierarchies play with respect to the organization of production and what determines their structure? We develop an equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law offices from the 1992 Census of Services....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072174
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A Corporate Beauty Contest
Graham, John R. - 2010
that executive compensation is linked to these perceived "competence" ratings. Our analysis explores these findings in more …-facedness" of the CEO. That is, more mature looking CEOs are assigned higher "competence" scores. This finding is potentially …. Essentially, the "look" of competence says very little about effective competence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144751