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Test-based accountability and student achievement : an investigation of differential performance on NAEP and state assessments
Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003409162
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The effect of employment protection on worker effort : evidence from public schooling
Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2010
"This paper studies the effect of employment protection on worker productivity and firm output in the context of a public school system. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931027
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Do principals fire the worst teachers?
Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2010
"This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936077
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The effect of employment protection on teacher effort
Jacob, Brian Aaron - In: Journal of labor economics 31 (2013) 4, pp. 727-761
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199488
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Accountability, incentives and behavior : the impact of high-stakes testing in the Chicago public schools
Jacob, Brian Aaron - In: Journal of public economics 89 (2005) 5/6, pp. 761-796
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002823206
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Where the boys aren't : non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education
Jacob, Brian Aaron - In: Economics of education review 21 (2002) 6, pp. 589-598
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001717084
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Getting inside accountability : lessons from Chicago
Jacob, Brian Aaron - In: Brookings-Wharton papers on urban affairs (2003), pp. 41-70
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001815034
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Public housing, housing vouchers and student achievement : evidence from public housing demolitions in Chicago
Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001756600
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Are idle hands the devil's workshop? : Incapacitation, concentration and juvenile crime
Jacob, Brian Aaron; Lefgren, Lars - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001756630
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Where the boys aren't : non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education
Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001672492