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higher risk of later grade retention and dropout. Leveraging existing school inputs for a light-touch, cost-effective, and …
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It is unclear whether teachers with a degree in education are more effective than those who are not trained in an education-related field. To further examine this issue, we analyze the relationship between teachers' college major and student achievement by using unique data from Ecuador, which,...
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. While these grading differentials have direct impact over high school graduation rates, they may also discourage future …
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This paper estimates the effects of school accountability on year-to-year teacher mobility in Chile. An accountability …-performance ranking was based on the school’s relative position on a set of variables and their corresponding thresholds, we use a … teachers can move to other schools, as we did not find any effect on the likelihood of teachers leaving the school system. The …
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more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … period of 7 years and exploit within teacher-school-grade variation in the number of school jobs over time. We found …
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which school characteristics teachers value the most can help us design new policies and modify the existing ones to attract …
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estimate the causal impact of winning the award on the school choice decisions of talented teachers. By exploiting the fact …
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