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...

In the context of certain dynamic models, it is possible to infer the elasticity of labor supply to the firm from the elasticity of the quit rate with respect to the wage. Using this property, we estimate the average labor supply elasticity to public school districts in Missouri. We take...

This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education. The focus is on understanding how the assumptions made to justify and implement such methods relate to the underlying economic model and the interpretation of the results. We start by...

Both school financial management and entrepreneurship are acknowledged as important competencies to acquire for school principals in Indonesia. Appropriate school financial management is important to ensure school funds are spent efficiently and effectively to support the provision of quality...

In der Handreichung sind Ergebnisse des Projekts „Berufsorientierung und Geschlecht“ praxisnah für Lehrkräfte und andere in der Berufsorientierung tätige Personen sowie Multiplikator/innen in der Lehrkräftefortbildung aufbereitet und mit im Unterricht ein-setzbaren Materialien...

The role of school principals largely resembles that of corporate managers and the leadership they provide is often viewed as a crucial component for educational success. We estimate the impact of individual principals on various schooling outcomes, by constructing a principal-school panel data...

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...