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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers 2u<
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-31
With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure …
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Teacher unions, teacher pay and student performance in India: a pupil fixed effects approach
Kingdon, Geeta; Teal, Francis - 2008
-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within …
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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - 2012
With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282599
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Schulleiter-Lehrer-Erwartungen und die Folgen
Schmitz, Edgar; Voreck, Peter - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 4, pp. 413-428
240 Schulleiter wurden nach ihren Erwartungen und Ansprüchen gegenüber ihren Lehrpersonen befragt. Eine Clusteranalyse ergab zwei Gruppen von Schulleitern: An Schuladministration und Schulordnung orientierte (Gruppe I) und eher pädagogisch geleitete Schulleiter (Gruppe II). Die Schulleiter...
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Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital and the Irula
Terjesen, Siri - 2007
(CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize … catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from …
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Innovation capacity and economic development: China and India
Fan, Peilei - 2008
Both China and India, the emerging giants in Asia, have achieved significant economic development in recent years …. China has enjoyed a high annual GDP growth rate of 10 per cent and India has achieved an annual GDP growth rate of 6 per … cent since 1981. Decomposing China and India’s GDP growth from 1981 to 2004 into the three factors’ contribution reveals …
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Do more effective teachers earn more outside of the classroom?
Chingos, Matthew M.; West, Martin R. - 2010
We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001-02 and 2006-07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4-8 teachers leaving for other industries, a 1 standard deviation increase in estimated...
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Motivational goal bracketing
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation
Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2008
This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...
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