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more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … period of 7 years and exploit within teacher-school-grade variation in the number of school jobs over time. We found …
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interpretation of the results. We start by considering the estimation of the returns to education both within the context of a … of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement, and the effect of school …
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This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers' careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learningby- Doing (LBD) and...
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This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers’ careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learning-by-Doing (LBD) and...
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Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies … how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students' short- and longer-term academic outcomes. Our setting is … a large and selective Chinese high school, where first-year students are separated into high-achieving and regular …
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-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state examinations and the high-school GPA on later effectiveness. I apply …
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longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School …; and (2) Pre-school and post-school experiences also have substantial positive significant effects on adult cognitive … skills. Pre-school experiences captured by height for age at 6 years substantially and significantly increase adult nonverbal …
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