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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2010
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
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Reflections on Americans' Views of the Euro Ex Ante
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010
This paper was prepared for a session of the 2009 American Economic Association meeting devoted to examining the views of American economists about the euro and the European Economic and Monetary Union on the tenth anniversary of the euro. I had written an article in 1992 in the Economist and...
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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read in School : A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - 2011
We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0.13 standard deviations. The effect is still present three...
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Learning from Coworkers
Jarosch, Gregor - 2019
We investigate learning at the workplace. To do so, we use German administrative data that contain information on the entire workforce of a sample of establishments. We document that having more highly paid coworkers is strongly associated with future wage growth, particularly if those workers...
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From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies : Challenges and Solutions, with an Application
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
The promise of randomized controlled trials is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program … evaluation of scalable policy. We do so by evaluating a series of strategies that aim to integrate the nongovernment organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977613
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The Consequences of Using One Assessment System to Pursue Two Objectives
Neal, Derek A. - 2013
Education officials often use one assessment system both to create measures of student achievement and to create performance metrics for educators. However, modern standardized testing systems are not designed to produce performance metrics for teachers or principals. They are designed to...
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Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention : Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of “Teaching at the Right Level” in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant learning gains. In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts to scale up the NGO Pratham's approach to teaching children...
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Public Finance in a Nutshell : A Cobb Douglas Teaching Tool for General Equilibrium Tax Incidence and Excess Burden
Fullerton, Don - 2017
To help first- or second-year graduate students in economics apply their theoretical training, this paper shows how to solve a simple and intuitive computable general equilibrium (CGE) model using a calculator. Because this simplified Harberger model uses Cobb Douglas functional forms for...
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Effect of Inquiry and Problem Based Pedagogy on Learning : Evidence from 10 Field Experiments in Four Countries
Bando, Rosangela - 2019
This paper uses data from 10 at-scale field experiments in four countries to estimate the effect of inquiry- and problem-based pedagogy (IPP) on students' mathematics and science test scores. IPP creates active problem-solving opportunities in settings that provide meaning to the child. Students...
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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-Career Teachers
Taylor, Eric S. - 2011
The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem …. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of … mid-career public school teachers where we can consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …
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