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Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these...
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We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents’ investments in their children. Exploiting a unique …, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more … qualified teachers by increasing their financial investments in their children. The key mechanism is an increase in parents …
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We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents' investments in their children. Exploiting a unique …, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more … qualified teachers by increasing their financial investments in their children. The key mechanism is an increase in parents …
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This article investigates the biases involved in estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school’s performance. The study was performed for Chilean educational system, where student distribution is differentiated by schools and teachers are not randomly assigned to them. Findings showed...
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This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...
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