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Over the last two decades Mexico has had an open trade regime, experienced macroeconomic stability, and made … misallocate resources toward lower-productivity firms impedes Mexico from taking full advantage of its investments in the human …
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We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico … associated with reductions in skilled and unskilled workers' wages. Furthermore, the elasticities are relatively similar. Second …, there is sectoral heterogeneity as, for manufacturing, unskilled workers' wages decrease more, while skilled workers do not …
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Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half …
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The past decade has seen the emergence of numerous rigorous impact evaluations of teacher policies. This paper reviews the economic theory and empirical evidence on eight teacher policy goals: (1) setting clear expectations for teachers; (2) attracting the best into teaching; (3) preparing...
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community instructors in Mexico. Instructors have to deal with idiosyncratic shocks and shocks related to settling in to new …
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We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of math, language and executive function (EF) at the end...
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This paper analyzes gender bias in teaching in low-performing schools in Chile. To carry out the analyses, the authors used videotaped classes for fourth graders and coded 237 tapings. Results show a general (although not uniform) bias in teachers' actions that resulted in less attention to...
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