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The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS surveys. The analysis covers European countries, thus...
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Measuring non-cognitive skills in evaluations of education policy interventions is an increasingly important task. At the same time, choosing the adequate measures is difficult. Contrary to cognitive development, there is a shortage of reliable and valid measures of personality and behavioral...
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The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS surveys. The analysis covers European countries, thus...
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The paper investigates teachers' decisions to leave the profession. First we examine the role of earnings and earnings in alternative occupations in these decisions, and then the paper discusses how the public sector wage increase in 2002 has effected exiting decisions of teachers. Using large...
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The paper looks at school segregation in Hungary by ethnicity (Roma versus non-Roma) and social disadvantage. We use … comprehensive data from the National Assessment of Basic Competences from 2006. School segregation is measured at various levesl: by … comprehensive nature. Comparsons to the racial and ethnic segregation of the U.S. school system reveals lower segregation on average …
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of primary school children (grades 1 through 8) in 45 schools in Hungary. The goal of the program was to compensate for …
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