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Inadequate teacher content knowledge and what to do about it: evidence from El Salvador
Brunetti, Aymo; Büchel, Konstantin; Jakob, Martina; … - 2021
Good teachers are the backbone of a successful education system. Yet, in developing countries, teachers' content knowledge is often inadequate. This study documents that primary school math teachers in the department of Moraz'an in El Salvador only master 47 percent of the curriculum they teach....
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Teaching Personnel Wages
Klyachko, Tatiana - 2014
In 2013, the principle focus in the Russian education system was placed upon raising teaching personnel wages, because … these wages are linked to wages of the nursery-school teacher and teaching personnel of the extended education system … monitoring-based study showed that growth in wages had no significant effect on the teaching personnel's self-sentiment, most of …
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The Impact of Education on Wages : Analysis of an Education Reform in Turkey
Mocan, Leyla - 2014
attainment, the impact of the increase in education on wages, and to explore how this varied across individuals. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040342
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Educational outcomes : a literature review of policy drivers from a macroeconomic perspective
Smidova, Zuzana - 2019
This paper reviews recent empirical literature on policy drivers of two educational outcomes - years of schooling and rates of return - that form the OECD’s aggregate measure of human capital. The paper sets the literature findings into the context of current educational polices in place in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202848
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531928
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536219
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Adjusted state teacher salaries and the decision to teach
Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - 2015
Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510503
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Value for Money? Teacher Compensation and Student Outcomes in Canada's Six Largest Provinces
Johnson, David Roland - 2015
largest provinces to wages of other similar workers. Manitoba and Ontario pay the most relative to other similar workers in … the province, while British Columbia teacher wages are usually the lowest. Relative salaries in Alberta and Saskatchewan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016107
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Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach
Rickman, Dan S. - 2015
Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023764
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Decentralization of wage determination : evidence from a national teacher reform
Willén, Alexander - 2019
Despite a global trend of wage decentralization over the past 30 years, we know very little about the labor market implications of decentralized wage determination. A main reason is the lack of exogenous variation in wage regulation linked to detailed outcome data. Using Swedish registry data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028540