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Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by...
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This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When … training affects worker sorting to firms, sample selection is no longer binary but is "multilayered". This paper extends the … job training on wage rates across firms with a weighted-average of the contrast in wages between different firms for a …
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body of evidence on what kinds of in-service teacher training interventions are most effective, and highlights the … knowledge gaps. It reveals the dearth of detail on the nature of teacher training interventions and proposes a standard set of … indicators-the In-Service Teacher Training Survey Instrument-for reporting on such programs as a prerequisite for understanding …
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Benchmarking is intended to help gauge where economies rank relative to others. However, historically educational benchmarking has often elected to use indicators based on their ease of availability, rather than a clear and defined link between inputs and learning outcomes. In this paper, we...
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