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The Good, the Bad and the Average : Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools

Lavy, Victor - 2009

ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …

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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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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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The Long Run Human Capital and Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations

Lavy, Victor - 2014

students, and children from higher socio-economic backgrounds. The results suggest that random disturbances during high … Israeli high school students who took a series of high stakes matriculation exams between 2000 and 2002. As a source of random …

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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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New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning

Angrist, Joshua - 1999

The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...

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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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Maimonides Rule Redux

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017

rule that uses data on students' birthdays to compute statutory enrollment in the absence of enrollment manipulation also …

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