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Linking Teacher Quality, Student Attendance, and Student Achievement

Gershenson, Seth - 2014

students in North Carolina I estimate teacher effects on primary school student absences in a value-added framework. The …

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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary

Varga, Júlia - 2003

This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application … strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their … Hungarian secondary school students, three aspects of application decisions are investigated: the number of applications; the …

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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality

Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014

SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners’...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Teaching

Jacinto, Alberto - 2019

Parental influences, particularly parents' occupations, may influence individuals' entry into the teaching profession. Importantly, this mechanism may explain the relatively static demographic composition of the teaching force over time. We assess the role of parental influences on occupational...

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The effect of pre-service cognitive and pedagogical teacher skills on student achievement gains : evidence from German entry screening exams

Enzi, Bernhard - 2017

Information about teachers' effectiveness at the hiring stage is particularly scarce despite its importance for personnel decisions. Using the German setting of teacher training, I investigate the relationship of teachers' pre-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state...

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Teacher preferences, working conditions, and compensation structure

Johnston, Andrew - 2020

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...

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Does the precision and stability of value-added estimates of teacher performance depend on the types of students they serve?

Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra Marie; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013

characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it … teacher's students. The differences are large in magnitude and statistically significant. The year-to-year stability level of … students compared to teachers with initially lower performing students. In addition, some differences are detected even when …

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More teachers, smarter students? : potential side effects of the German educational expansion

Westphal, Matthias - 2017

today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …

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Does an education major matter for teaching? : the relationship between teachers' degree and student achievement

Drouet, Marcelo; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; … - 2022

It is unclear whether teachers with a degree in education are more effective than those who are not trained in an education-related field. To further examine this issue, we analyze the relationship between teachers' college major and student achievement by using unique data from Ecuador, which,...

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The effects of student composition on teacher turnover : evidence from an admission reform

Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2016

This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a...

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