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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - 2003
-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity for entry wages of upper secondary school teachers. In the cases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261950
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The quantity and quality of teachers: a dynamic trade-off
Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovich, Michael - 2009
education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264532
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Self-selection into teaching: the role of teacher education institutions
Denzler, Stefan; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2008
based on a representative sampling of over 1500 high-school students in Switzerland shortly before graduation. The findings … they offer. This can clearly be seen in comparison with high-school students preparing to study at another type of higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268896
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The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption: Evidence from a "xeroxed" exam
Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012
examine its effect on students' scores on the high-stakes national exam which occurs at the end of high school - the … corrupt activities by public school staff, which was driven by financial incentives. These results match an unprecedentedly … high number of allegations of fraud and bribery against school principals, which earned the 2010 Baccalaureate the title of …
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Teaching practices and social capital
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286875
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Análise do uso das TICs em escolas públicas e privadas a partir da teoria da atividade
Wives, Willian Washington; Kubota, Luis Claudio; Amiel, Tel - 2016
School technology integration rarely begins with school or educator choice. It is part of a wider context where … studies such as this have to be analyzed with caution when trying to generate inferences to school systems as a whole. On the … school development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537878
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Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh; Jones, Sam - 2019
in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984630
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A relação entre proficiência e dispersão de idade na sala de aula: a influência do nível de qualificação do professor
Machado, Danielle Carusi; Firpo, Sergio; Gonzaga, Gustavo - 2013
Neste artigo documentamos haver entre alunos do ensino básico no Brasil uma relação negativa e significativa entre dispersão etária dentro das turmas e a proficiência individual. A relação entre a defasagem idade-série da criança e a sua proficiência escolar é usualmente explicada...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807440
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School and Crime
Jones, Todd R.; Karger, Ezra - 2023
that arrests of children and reported crimes involving children follow a different pattern: peaking during the school year … school year to show that this pattern is caused by school: children aged 10–17 are roughly 50% more likely to be involved in … a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469529
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Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2018
in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918294