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Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride : The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

Gould, Eric D. - 2009

almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided … faced by immigrant children were not correlated with other factors that affected the long-term outcomes of individuals. We … locality of residence was a Yemenite enclave. We find that children who were placed in a better environment (i.e. with better …

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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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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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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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Out of Africa : Human Capital Consequences of In Utero Conditions

Lavy, Victor - 2016

-experimental variation created by the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in May 24th 1991. Children in utero prior to immigration faced … that children exposed in an earlier stage of the pregnancy to better environmental conditions in utero have two decades …

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