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Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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Since the work of Downs (1957), spatial models of elections have been a mainstay of research in political science and …
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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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lines but racial lines as well, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find …
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We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
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with other skilled workers than with unskilled workers--and by race and ethnicity, using simulation methods to measure … education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as skill is often … correlated with race and ethnicity. Finally, we attempt to distinguish between segregation by skill based on general crowding of …
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The question of the effects of race and sex discrimination laws on relative economic outcomes for blacks and women has … 'comparison' groups. We examine the effects of race and sex discrimination laws on employment and earnings, in each case focusing … as corroborating the general conclusion that race discrimination laws positively impacted the relative employment and …
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, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS regressions of starting wages on current performance--which is measured …
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