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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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Noise or news? : learning about the content of test-based school achievement measures
Javdani, Mohsen - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 3, pp. 1417-1453
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Class size, class composition, and the distribution of student achievement
Bosworth, Ryan - In: Education economics 22 (2014) 1/2, pp. 141-165
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Broadband in school : impact on student performance
Belo, Rodrigo; Ferreira, Pedro; Telang, Rahul - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 265-282
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The effectiveness of vocational versus general secondary education : evidence from the PISA 2012 for countries with early tracking
Kuzmina, Julia; Carnoy, Martin - In: International journal of manpower 37 (2016) 1, pp. 2-24
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Gender gaps in primary school achievement : a decomposition into endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Schils, Trudie - In: Economics of education review 41 (2014), pp. 176-187
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