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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - 2012
With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure … in remote areas this could compromise skills. -- discrete choice experiment ; teacher recruitment ; job preferences … ; hiring quotas ; skills ; India …
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Where's the teacher? : how teacher workplace segregation impedes teacher allocation in India
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - 2017
an under-explored dimension; the allocation of public sector teachers in India. Using a register database for 2006-12, we …
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Measuring the effect of competitive teacher recruitment on student achievement : evidence from Ecuador
Araujo P., Maria Daniela - 2019
In the last decade, several Latin American governments have implemented new teacher recruitment policies based on …-based selection competitions for tenure at public schools. Has this new recruitment system served as an effective screening device … hierarchical linear regressions to evaluate the effect of Ecuador's new competitive recruitment policy. I then use propensity score …
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Teachers' preferences for proximity and the implications for staffing schools : evidence from Peru
Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; … - 2019
This paper explores rank-ordered teacher candidates' preferences for public schools in Peru by analyzing the 2015 teacher hiring process. Our analysis shows that, in seeking permanent positions in public schools, candidates appear to search closer to where they attended their Teacher Education...
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The effect of pre-service cognitive and pedagogical teacher skills on student achievement gains : evidence from German entry screening exams
Enzi, Bernhard - 2017
Information about teachers' effectiveness at the hiring stage is particularly scarce despite its importance for personnel decisions. Using the German setting of teacher training, I investigate the relationship of teachers' pre-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state...
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Whether to hire local contract teachers? : trade-off between skills and preferences in India
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - 2011
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The compositional effect of rigorous teacher evaluation on workforce quality
Cullen, Julie Berry; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric - 2016
Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints. In this paper, we study how providing information to principals about teacher...
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Teacher allocation and school performance in Italy
Bryson, Alex; Corsini, Lorenzo; Martelli, Irene - 2020
Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent job slots for teachers. When permanent posts do arise they are allocated mostly on seniority while merit only plays a small role. Thus, the age distribution of teachers in...
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Determinants of teacher value-added in public primary schools : evidence from administrative panel data
Tanaka, Ryūichi; Bessho, Shun-ichiro; Kawamura, Akira; … - 2020
This study estimates teacher value-added (TVA) for language arts and mathematics test scores of students in public primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman,...
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Unionization and productivity : evidence from charter schools
Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2014
This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...
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