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Adjusting content to individual student needs : further evidences from a teacher training program
Bouguen, Adrien - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301871
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The effect of occupational licensing stringency on the teacher quality distribution
Larsen, Bradley J.; Ju, Ziao; Kapor, Adam; Yu, Chuan - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504487
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Does an education major matter for teaching? : the relationship between teachers' degree and student achievement
Drouet, Marcelo; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; … - 2022
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 …-significant relationship between degree type and student achievement, suggesting that teachers with and without an education degree are equally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014493849
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Do multiple school jobs affect teacher performance? : evidence from Brazil
Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana - 2019
Low salaries, a limited amount of full-time teaching positions, and alternative systems of allocating teaching hours lead teachers to look for additional jobs in other schools. Although this is a more common phenomenon of teacher labor markets in developing countries, teachers who teach specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117513
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Can financial incentives help disadvantaged schools to attract and retain high-performing teachers? : evidence from Chile
Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; Hincapié, Isabel; … - 2019
The extensive sorting of more talented teachers into the most advantaged schools contributes to the wide socioeconomic achievement gaps in Latin America. The Chilean Pedagogical Excellence Assignment (AEP, for its Spanish acronym) is a unique program in the region that provides monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154871
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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152937
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Reducing parent-school information gaps and improving education outcomes : evidence from high-frequency text messages
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; … - 2021
scalable information intervention can improve education outcomes in lower-income settings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584593
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Does evaluating teachers make a difference?
Briole, Simon; Maurin, Eric - 2019
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Barriers to immigrant assimilation evidence on grading bias in Ecuadorian high schools
Rangel, Marcos A.; Marotta, Luana; Van der Werf, Cynthia; … - 2024
We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant background play a significant role in this assimilation process....
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The effects of shared school technology access on students digital skills in Peru
Bet, Germán; Cristia, Julian; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246126