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While it is widely established that higher wages attract more productive individuals into teaching, it is unclear if …. Using teachers' predicted relative wages, calculated using a novel method of estimating teachers' outside option, we provide … evidence that teachers do respond to higher wages and this improves pupil outcomes. Consistent with the predictions of the …
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Teachers can influence student achievement, not only directly, but also indirectly via peer effects. Based on a unique data set from a Chinese middle school (grades 7-9), this paper uses a student fixed-effects model to estimate peer effects for four core subjects (Chinese, Math, English, and...
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Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...
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