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Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower poverty schools
Sass, Tim R.; Hannaway, Jane; Xu, Zeyu; Figlio, David N.; … - In: Journal of Urban Economics 72 (2012) 2, pp. 104-122
Using student-level microdata from 2000–2001 to 2004–2005 from Florida and North Carolina, we compare the effectiveness of teachers in schools serving primarily students from low-income families (70% free-and-reduced-price-lunch students) with teachers in schools serving more advantaged...
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Remittances and the human capital of children: New evidence from Kyrgyzstan during revolution and financial crisis, 2005–2009
Kroeger, Antje; Anderson, Kathryn H. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 770-785
We analyze the effect of the receipt of remittances on the education and health of children in Kyrgyzstan during a … trends in nutrition and education. …
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HUMAN CAPITAL: CAUSE AND EFFECT OF THE ECONOMIC GROWTH. AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
OLIMPIA, NEAGU - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 726-735
of human capital in the economy and the association between education and health. The paper aims to test several … association between education and life expectancy. The paper demonstrates that human capital, in his two components (education and … available in the economy for improvements in health and education and, on the other hand, human capital is influencing …
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Grain inflation: Identifying agent discretion in response to a conditional school nutrition program
Linden, Leigh L.; Shastry, Gauri Kartini - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 1, pp. 128-138
Many incentive programs rely on local agents with significant discretion to allocate benefits. We estimate the degree of discretion exercised by teachers within a conditional transfer program designed to improve nutrition and encourage student attendance in Mumbai, India. The program allocates...
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School Management: Norwegian Legacies Bowing to New Public Management
Tjeldvoll, Arild - In: Managing Global Transitions 6 (2008) 2, pp. 177-205
education policies and strategies. A specific question was asked: How relevant is the teaching professors’ understanding of …
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Heterogeneous trends in U.S. teacher quality 1980-2010
Richey, Jeremiah - In: Education economics 23 (2015) 5/6, pp. 645-659
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Teacher accountability reforms and the supply and quality of new teachers
Kraft, Matthew A.; Brunner, Eric J.; Dougherty, Shaun M.; … - In: Journal of public economics 188 (2020), pp. 1-24
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Fatores associados à violência escolar : evidências para o Estado de São Paulo
Tavares, Priscilla Albuquerque; Pietrobom, Francine Carvalho - In: Estudos econômicos : publicação trimestral do … 46 (2016) 2, pp. 471-498
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Do boys benefit from male teachers in elementary school? : evidence from administrative panel data
Puhani, Patrick A. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 51 (2018), pp. 340-354
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Teacher Quality and Incentives: Theoretical and Empirical Effects of Standards on Teacher Quality
Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 61 (2005) 3, pp. 298-298
Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking, because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers´pay (defined in monetary terms) is not...
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