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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector : Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?
Stoddard, Christiana - 2010
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers' hours are largely chosen at the worker's discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761768
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159527
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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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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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Aggregate Hours Worked in OECD Countries : New Measurement and Implications for Business Cycles
Ohanian, Lee E. - 2011
We build a new quarterly dataset of aggregate hours worked consistent with standard NIPA constructs for 14 OECD countries over the last fifty years. We find that cyclical features of labor markets across countries differ markedly from the accepted empirical facts reported in the literature based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120295
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Long-Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from OECD Countries, 1956-2004
Ohanian, Lee E. - 2007
We document large differences in trend changes in hours worked across OECD countries over the period 1956-2004. We then assess the extent to which these changes are consistent with the intratemporal first order condition from the neoclassical growth model. We find large and trending deviations...
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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study
Edwards, Sebastian - 2014
specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational … estimation technique: we find that there is no evidence that including the right to education in the constitution has been … associated with higher test scores. The quality of education depends on socioeconomic, structural, and policy variables, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047404
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What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Lavy, Victor - 2011
This paper measures empirically the relationship between classroom teaching practices and student achievements. Based on primary- and middle-school data from Israel, I find very strong evidence that two important elements of teaching practices cause student achievements to improve. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128274
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128610
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Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement : Evidence from New York City Public Schools
Fryer, Roland G. - 2011
Financial incentives for teachers to increase student performance is an increasingly popular education policy around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128846