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School-Based Accountability and the Distribution of Teacher Quality Across Grades in Elementary School
Fuller, Sarah C.; Ladd, Helen F. - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 4, pp. 528-559
of teacher quality in the upper grades (3–5) and to examine the hypothesis that school accountability pressures … introduction of No Child Left Behind. Consistent with that pattern, we find that schools responded to accountability pressures by … the view that accountability pressure induces schools to pursue actions that work to the disadvantage of children in the …
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Improving Education Outcomes in Germany
Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
Improving education outcomes is important for Germany’s long-term economic performance and social cohesion. While student achievement is above the OECD average in science and at the OECD average in reading and mathematics according to the 2006 OECD PISA study, weaker students tend to do badly...
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Effects of fiscal decentralisation and electoral accountability efficiency evidence from the Italian health care sector
Porcelli, Francesco - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009
accountability affect the efficiency of governmental activity. …
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Stock vs. mutual insurers: Who should and who does charge more?
Braun, Alexander; Schmeiser, Hato; Rymaszewski, Przemysław - In: European Journal of Operational Research 242 (2015) 3, pp. 875-889
We contribute to the literature by developing a normative theory of the relationship between stock and mutual insurers based on a contingent claims framework. To consistently price policies provided by firms in these two legal forms of organization, we extend the work of Doherty and Garven...
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Efficiency of Raising Health Outcomes in the Indian States
J, Prachitha; Shanmugam, K R - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier methodology for panel data for the period 2000-2009. [MSE WORKING PAPER 70/2012]. URL: [http://www.mse.ac.in/pub/working%20pape70%20-%20web(1).pdf].
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Teacher Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Pupil-fixed effects estimates for twelve countries
Hein, Christopher F.; Allen, Rebecca - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2013
This paper estimates the relationship between teacher characteristics and teacher quality by applying point-in-time pupil-fixed effects. It uses a large cross-sectional dataset of grade 6 teaching and learning in 12 sub-Saharan countries. The findings are generally in line with the existing...
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A Comparison of Growth Percentile and Value-Added Models of Teacher Performance
Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; Stacy, Brian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
School districts and state departments of education frequently must choose between a variety of methods to estimating teacher quality. This paper examines under what circumstances the decision between estimators of teacher quality is important. We examine estimates derived from growth percentile...
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Evaluating students’ evaluations of professors
Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 71-88
This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students’ evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University. The effectiveness measures are estimated by comparing the performance in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to...
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Match Quality, Worker Productivity, and Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence from Teachers
Jackson, C. Kirabo - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1096-1116
I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher effectiveness increases after a move to a different school and estimate teacher-school match effects. Match quality explains away a quarter of and has two-thirds the explanatory...
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Can Conditional Grants Attract Better Students: Evidence from Chinese Normal Universities
Han, Li; Xie, Jiaxin - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015
One recent policy tend to improve teacher quality is providing conditional grants to trainees in teacher colleges and commit them to working in disadvantaged areas upon graduation. Yet little is known whether such policies attract better trainees. This paper evaluates a conditional grant program...
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