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Gender differences in market competitiveness in a real workplace : evidence from performance-based pay tournaments among teachers
Lavy, Victor - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 123 (2013) 569, pp. 540-573
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009779096
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Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace : Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers
Lavy, Victor - 2008
Recent lab and field experiments suggest that women are less effective than men in a competitive environment. In this … mix. The competition is among math, English and Language teachers who participated in a rank order tournament that … ranking, winning rate and awarded prize did not differ by gender nor between teachers in competition groups with only female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464310
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … alters the schooling distributions of men and women differently, thus the average causal effect we estimate puts a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309044
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Geschlechtsspezifische Wirkung von Anreizsystemen? Ein empirischer Vergleich in vier Staaten
Wolff, Birgitta; Lusk, Edward J.; Rehu, Marjaana; Li, Fang - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003358300
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Individual teacher incentives and student performance
Figlio, David N.; Kenny, Lawrence W. - In: Journal of public economics 91 (2007) 5/6, pp. 901-914
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Individual teacher incentives and student performance
Figlio, David N.; Kenny, Lawrence W. - 2006
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Career changers in teaching jobs : a case study based on the Swiss vocational education system
Hof, Stefanie; Strupler, Mirjam; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011
This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...
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Aligning student, parent, and teacher incentives : evidence from Houston public schools
Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2012
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How effective are financial incentives for teachers? : linking teacher pay to student performance has become popular, but evidence on its effectiveness is mixed
Imberman, Scott A. - 2015
Concerns about poor student performance have led schools to diverge from traditional teacher compensation and base a portion of pay on student outcomes. In the US, the number of school districts adopting such performancebased financial incentives has increased by more than 40% since 2004....
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