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Over-estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school performance in the Chilean education system

Toledo Román, Gabriela; Valenzuela, Juan Pablo - In: Estudios de economía 42 (2015) 1, pp. 99-128

teachers are not randomly assigned to them. Findings showed that teacher attributes which favored learning appeared more …

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Student Achievement and University Classes : Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers

Martins, Pedro S.; Walker, Ian - 2021

We examine the empirical determinants of student achievement in higher education, focusing our attention on its small-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal...

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Evaluating the Effect of Teachers' Performance Incentives on Pupil Achievement

Lavy, Victor - 2002

Proposals to use teachers' performance incentives as the basis for school reforms have recently attracted considerable … the causal effect of a program that offered monetary incentives to teachers as a function of their students' achievements …. The program offered incentives to schools in the form of performance awards, part of which were distributed to teachers …

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Investigating Primary School Quality Using Teachers’ Self-Efficacy and Satisfaction

Skapinaki, Athina; Salamoura, Maria - 2020

Purpose: The current study aims to examine the impact of teachers’ job satisfaction and self-efficacy in improving … teachers emphasizing on different aspects of marketing: external, interactive or internal marketing.Methods: Questionnaire … survey, on a sample of 193 teachers in a total number of 420 has been used. The 74-item questionnaire was divided into 4 …

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Discrimination in grading: experimental evidence from primary school teachers

Sprietsam, Maresa - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 45 (2013) 1, pp. 523-538

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Giving children a better start: Pre-school attendance and school-age profiles

Berlinski, Samuel; Galiani, Sebastian; Manacorda, Marco - 2006

We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective information on preschool attendance in the context of a rapid expansion in the supply of preprimary places....

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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: The effect of external examiners in Italian schools

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2012

Using a natural experiment designed by the Italian national test administrator (INVALSI) to monitor test procedures in Italian primary schools, this paper shows that the presence of an external examiner who monitors test procedures has both a direct and an indirect effect on the measured...

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Integrated public education, fertility and human capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility among more affluent parents whose children...

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The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools : Understanding the Changing Role of Ability

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2004

Previous work by the authors suggested that during the 1970s and 1980s, a person?s early cognitive ability became a less important determinant of his or her eventual educational achievement. Furthermore, over the same time period, family background started to have a greater impact on a person?s...

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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...

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