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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Individual investments in education and health : policy responses and interactions
Carbone, Jared C.; Kverndokk, Snorre - 2016
education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … education would require large imperfections in these markets to be more welfare improving than distributional policies. …
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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Microeconometric Evaluations of Education Policies
Siegler, Benedikt - 2015
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo … Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes three empirical studies, each of which evaluates one distinct education …), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698347
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938718
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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables
Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2012
This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when...
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Measuring grade inflation and grade divergence accounting for student quality
Matos Díaz, Horacio - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 2-15
This study uses a rich longitudinal data-set of 13,202 full-time students belonging to 11 cohorts over 22 consecutive semesters (Fall 1995 to Spring 2006) to model the determinants of the grade inflation rates prevailing at the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón. The following new interesting...
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How do principals assign students to teachers? : finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
quality ; teacher labor markets ; education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683231
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Intensive math instruction and educational attainment : long-run impacts of double-dose algebra
Cortes, Kalena E.; Goodman, Joshua S.; Nomi, Takako - 2014
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
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Trends and Strategies for Attracting International Students to U.S. Public Health Programs
Kono, Yoko - 2014
International students are part of the rapid expansion in public health program enrollment, increasing by 67 percent from 2000 to 2012. However, this growth has been slower than that of domestic students, and enrollments are disproportionate across institutions. This article discusses current...
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