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The 'Pupil' Factory : Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2016

Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fifty traditional public elementary schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment schools altered their schedules to have teachers...

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Teachers' Use of Class Time and Student Achievement

Burgess, Simon M.; Rawal, Shenila; Taylor, Eric S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study teachers' choices about how to allocate class time across different instructional activities, for example, lecturing, open discussion, or individual practice. Our data come from secondary schools in England, specifically classes preceding GCSE exams. Students score higher in math when...

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The Changing Benefits of Early Work Experience

Baum, Charles L. - 2014

We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future wage benefits of working 20 hours per week in the...

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Experience Matters : Human Capital and Development Accounting

Lagakos, David - 2012

We use international household-survey data to document that experience-wage profiles are flatter in poorer countries than in richer countries. We find a quantitatively similar pattern when we estimate returns to foreign experience by country of origin among U.S. immigrants. The most likely...

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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital : Some Projections

Drozd, Mark M.; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...

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The Nature of Surgeon Human Capital Depreciation

Hockenberry, Jason - 2014

To test how practice interruptions affect worker productivity, we estimate how temporal breaks affect surgeons' performance of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Using a sample of 188 surgeons who performed 56,315 CABG procedures in Pennsylvania between 2006 and 2010, we find that a...

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Estimation of the Depreciation Rate of Physical and R&D Capital in the U.S. Total Manufacturing Sector

Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1993

physical and R&D capital, which in turn requires measuring their depreciation rates. In this paper we have specified a model of … factor demand that allows for estimating the depreciation rate of both physical and R&D capital jointly with the other model … parameters. The model was estimated for the U.S. total manufacturing sector. Our estimate for the depreciation rate of physical …

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Human Capital Depreciation

Dinerstein, Michael - 2020

Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker … variation from the teacher assignment process in Greece. We find significant losses to output, as a one-year increase in time … estimate a skill depreciation rate of 4.3% and experience returns of 6.8% …

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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

This paper examines the dynamic effects of a teachers' pay for performance experiment on long-term outcomes at adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of 0.25 years of schooling at age 28-30. The effects on...

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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers

Taylor, Eric S. - 2011

The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of mid-career public school teachers where we can...

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