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Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from tracking if teachers would otherwise have incentives to teach to the top of …

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Which Factors Determine Academic Performance of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Spanish Evidence

Dolado, Juan J.; Morales, Eduardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper analyses the determinants of academic performance of first-year undergraduate students in Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. We focus on a few core subjects which differ in their degree of mathematical complexity. Type of school, specialization...

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives … separate the effects of the monitoring and the financial incentives, we estimate a structural dynamic labour supply model that … to the financial incentives. The estimated elasticity of labour with respect to the incentive is 0.306. Our model …

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...

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Immigration and the School System

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...

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Incentives, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We study a model where student eort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will...

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Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure

Jurajda, Stepan; Münich, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Do women perform worse than equally able men in stressful competitive settings? We ask this question for competitions with a high payoff---admissions to tuition-free selective universities. With data on an entire cohort of Czech students graduating from secondary schools and applying to...

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Minimum Wages: Curse or Blessing?

Ravn, Morten O; Sorensen, Jan Rose - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

In this paper we consider the effects of minimum wage legislation in an overlapping generations model. In our model there is an intergenerational externality in the accumulation of human capital since the production of human capital of every new generation depends positively on the average human...

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Performance Gender-Gap: Does Competition Matter?

Örs, Evren; Palomino, Frédéric; Peyrache, Eloïc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Using data from a natural experiment with high payoffs in education, we examine whether the competitive nature of tournament structure explains the performance gender-gap. We find that performance is statistically lower for women, the variance of performance is higher for men, and the tails of...

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Childhood Determinants of Risk Aversion: The Long Shadow of Compulsory Education

Hryshko, Dmytro; Luengo-Prado, Maria Jose; Sørensen, Bent E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We study the determinants of individual attitudes towards risk and, in particular, why some individuals exhibit extremely high risk aversion. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics we find that a policy induced increase in high school graduation rates leads to significantly fewer...

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