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estimate the causal impact of winning the award on the school choice decisions of talented teachers. By exploiting the fact …The extensive sorting of more talented teachers into the most advantaged schools contributes to the wide socioeconomic … program in the region that provides monetary incentives to talented teachers with an additional bonus if they work in …
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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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teachers can move to other schools, as we did not find any effect on the likelihood of teachers leaving the school system. The …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 …
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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 … teachers teach in more than one school at a time. Lastly, results suggest that an increase in the number of non-teaching hours …
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which school characteristics teachers value the most can help us design new policies and modify the existing ones to attract … teachers to hard-to-staff schools. …
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-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 design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …
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one-year professional development program that trained and coached teachers throughout the school year and provided them …Teachers are the most fundamental input of students' learning. For this reason, developing teaching skills is a policy … and their students with structured materials. Following a year of instruction by the trained teachers, students' literacy …
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regression-discontinuity design, we estimate the causal impact of attending a preferred school on a broad array of outcomes. As … consistent with parents valuing school impacts on outcomes not well-measured by test scores, while the pattern for males is …
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Credit constraints are central to development economics theory. However, there is scant direct evidence that supports the existence of such constraints. Traditional tests observe how consumption changes after an unexpected income shock. Such changes can also result from myopic behavior or...
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