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Teachers’ Pay for Performance in the Long-Run : Effects on Students’ Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in Adulthood

Lavy, Victor - 2015

adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …

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What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers

Jacob, Brian A. - 2005

This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes … including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents … families in higher-income schools …

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Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace : Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers

Lavy, Victor - 2008

teachers or with both genders. I also find that the direct impact of the bonus program on students' outcomes did not vary by …

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Alternative Measures of Teachers' Value Added and Impact on Short and Long-Term Outcomes : Evidence From Random Assignment

Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes. This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...

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The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reform Efforts in Chicago

Jacob, Brian A. - 2002

reading performance of elementary students. We find that marginal increases in-service training have no statistically or … not be sufficient to increase the achievement of elementary school children in high poverty schools …

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Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools

Angrist, Joshua D. - 1998

paper, we estimate the effect of in-service teacher training on children's reading and mathematics achievement in Jerusalem …

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