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Stress Test: Examining the Evolution of Teachers' Mental Health Over Time
Holt, Stephen B.; Wang, Rui; Gershenson, Seth - 2020
Teaching is often assumed to be a relatively stressful occupation and occupational stress among teachers has been linked to poor mental health, attrition from the profession, and decreased effectiveness in the classroom. Despite widespread concern about teachers' mental health, however, little...
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Improving Education Outcomes in Germany
Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
Improving education outcomes is important for Germany’s long-term economic performance and social cohesion. While student achievement is above the OECD average in science and at the OECD average in reading and mathematics according to the 2006 OECD PISA study, weaker students tend to do badly...
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School-Based Accountability and the Distribution of Teacher Quality Across Grades in Elementary School
Fuller, Sarah C.; Ladd, Helen F. - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 4, pp. 528-559
of teacher quality in the upper grades (3–5) and to examine the hypothesis that school accountability pressures … introduction of No Child Left Behind. Consistent with that pattern, we find that schools responded to accountability pressures by … the view that accountability pressure induces schools to pursue actions that work to the disadvantage of children in the …
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Stress test: examining the evolution of teachers' mental health over time
Holt, Stephen B.; Wang, Rui; Gershenson, Seth - 2020
Teaching is often assumed to be a relatively stressful occupation and occupational stress among teachers has been linked to poor mental health, attrition from the profession, and decreased effectiveness in the classroom. Despite widespread concern about teachers' mental health, however, little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238008
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Effects of fiscal decentralisation and electoral accountability efficiency evidence from the Italian health care sector
Porcelli, Francesco - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009
accountability affect the efficiency of governmental activity. …
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Stock vs. mutual insurers: Who should and who does charge more?
Braun, Alexander; Schmeiser, Hato; Rymaszewski, Przemysław - In: European Journal of Operational Research 242 (2015) 3, pp. 875-889
We contribute to the literature by developing a normative theory of the relationship between stock and mutual insurers based on a contingent claims framework. To consistently price policies provided by firms in these two legal forms of organization, we extend the work of Doherty and Garven...
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Efficiency of Raising Health Outcomes in the Indian States
J, Prachitha; Shanmugam, K R - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier methodology for panel data for the period 2000-2009. [MSE WORKING PAPER 70/2012]. URL: [http://www.mse.ac.in/pub/working%20pape70%20-%20web(1).pdf].
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Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters
Rothstein, Jesse - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2012
Recent proposals would strengthen the dependence of teacher pay and retention on performance, in order to attract those who will be effective teachers and repel those who will not. I model the teacher labor market, incorporating dynamic self-selection, noisy performance measurement, and Bayesian...
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Teachers’ salaries and human capital, and their effects on academic performance: an institution-level analysis of Los Angeles County high schools
Cebula, Richard; Mixon, Franklin; Montez, Mark - In: Journal of Economics and Finance 39 (2015) 2, pp. 347-356
This study re-examines the relationships between school performance (at the high school level) on standardized exams and both teacher pay/salaries and teacher quality, where the latter is measured by teachers’ human capital. To undertake this analysis, we employ Academic Performance Index...
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Match Quality, Worker Productivity, and Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence from Teachers
Jackson, C. Kirabo - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1096-1116
I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher effectiveness increases after a move to a different school and estimate teacher-school match effects. Match quality explains away a quarter of and has two-thirds the explanatory...
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