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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 achievement by using unique data from Ecuador, which,...
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The effect of classroom rank on learning throughout elementary school : experimental evidence from Ecuador
Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, Yyannú; Salvati, Francesca; … - 2023
We study the impact on learning of a child's rank in the classroom using a unique experiment from Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade between kindergarten and 6th grade.Therefore, two students with the same ability can have different...
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Teacher quality and learning outcomes in kindergarten
Araujo, María Caridad; Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, … - 2016
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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From teacher quality to teaching quality : instructional productivity and teaching practices in the US
Briole, Simon - 2019
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Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added
Britton, Jack; Clark, Damon; Lee, Ines - 2023
We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits discontinuities in attendance probabilities that occur at unpredictable distance cutoffs used as tiebreakers in admissions processes for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw,...
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Patenting public-funded research for technology transfer : a conceptual-empirical synthesis of US evidence and lessons for India
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010
against the backdrop of the US experience in an attempt to draw concrete lessons for India. -- Bayh-Dole Act ; public …-funded research ; universities ; patents ; India …
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Drivers of academic research and patenting in India : econometric estimation of the research production function
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010
India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and …. Our results clearly identify several drivers of academic research and patenting in India, in terms of faculty background … India. In particular, we argue that putting in place institutional structures will not serve the purpose without addressing …
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Higher education in India : the need for change
Agarwal, Pawan - 2006
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Value addition, jobs and skills: a study of India's exports
Das, Deb Kusum; Kukreja, Prateek - 2020
importance of GVCs in India's exports, by devoting an entire chapter, suggesting ways to integrate Indian firms into GVCs. With … supported by India's exports, it is also important to understand the skill composition of such jobs. In this regard, the present … by India's exports between 2003-04 and 2013-14 using an Input-Output (I-O) table framework. The analysis highlights …
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Domestic value addition and foreign content : an analysis of India's exports from 1995 to 2011
Goldar, Bishwanath; Das, Deb Kusum; Sengupta, Sreerupa; … - 2017
India's merchandise trade has been growing in importance in recent years with increases in share in world exports and … applied by Koopmans, Wang and Wei (2008). The analysis highlights several interesting patterns. First, for India's exports … aggregate exports with other emerging economies shows that in terms of degree of integration in global value chains, India lags …
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