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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation : Which Technologies? Which Skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Gregoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The costs of low-carbon energy fell dramatically over the past decade, leading to rapid growth in its deployment. However, many challenges remain to deploy low-carbon energy at a scale necessary to meet net zero carbon emission targets. If net zero goals are to be met, developing complementary...
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Occupational Licensing and Accountant Quality : Evidence from the 150-Hour Rule
Barrios, John M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I examine the effects of occupational licensing on the quality of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). I exploit the staggered adoption of the 150-hour rule, which increases the educational requirements for a CPA license. The analysis shows that the rule decreases the number of entrants into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659996
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The Effect of Occupational Licensing Stringency on the Teacher Quality Distribution
Larsen, Bradley - 2020
Concerned about the low academic ability of public school teachers, in the 1990s and 2000s, some states increased licensing stringency to weed out low-quality candidates, while others decreased restrictions to attract high-quality candidates. We offer a theoretical model justifying both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482377
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Who Benefits from KIPP?
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010
Charter schools affiliated with the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms and a focus on traditional reading and math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462911
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The Declining Quality of Teachers
Lakdawalla, Darius - 2001
Concern is often voiced about the declining quality of American schoolteachers. This paper shows that, while the relative quality of teachers is declining, this decline is a result of technical change, which improves the specialized knowledge of skilled workers outside teaching, but not the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470461
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The Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry-Level Earnings
Betts, Julian R. - 2000
Despite recent theoretical work and proposals from educational reformers, there is little empirical work on the effects of higher grading standards. In this paper we use data from the High School and Beyond survey to estimate the effects of grading standards on student achievement, educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470862
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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/10012457939
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II : Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Chetty, Raj - 2013
Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has sparked debate partly because of a lack of evidence on whether high value-added (VA) teachers who raise students' test scores improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459236
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Screening with Multitasking
Dinerstein, Michael; Opper, Isaac M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334527
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A Corporate Beauty Contest
Graham, John R. - 2010
that executive compensation is linked to these perceived "competence" ratings. Our analysis explores these findings in more …-facedness" of the CEO. That is, more mature looking CEOs are assigned higher "competence" scores. This finding is potentially …. Essentially, the "look" of competence says very little about effective competence …
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