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within-group sorting, we conducted our field experiment within primary school classrooms where a pair of deskmates forms the …
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This paper provides a tractable theoretical model designed to capture the targeting incentives created by benchmark testing. Under high-stakes benchmark testing, schools and teachers are judged on the fraction of students that meet some given level of educational attainment. The incentive for...
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I use a structural matching model, North Carolina public school data, and a survey of teachers' career plans to analyze …
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This paper examines the potential output gains from the implementation of optimal teacher incentive pay schemes, by calibrating the Holmstrom and Milgrom (1987) hidden action model using data from Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2011), a teacher incentive pay experiment implemented in Andhra...
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education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. -- Basic and college education ; skill …
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education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged …
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I investigate three goals of school choice: student welfare, encouraging neighborhood schools, and diversity. I develop …,513) to a school one rank higher in their preference lists. My analysis also shows that one can simultaneously improve welfare … neighborhood school by 50\% without reducing welfare or diversity. I close by discussing menus-and-reserves mechanisms that …
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This paper examines the effects of sorting and mixing on academic performance of high school students in South Korea …
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of birth order on both number of hours in school during education and completed education. The results for both are …
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order on both number of hours in school during education and completed education. The results for both are consistent with …
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