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Screening with Multitasking
Dinerstein, Michael; Opper, Isaac M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...
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U.S. School Finance : Resources and Outcomes
Handel, Danielle V.; Hanushek, Eric Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The impact of school resources on student outcomes was first raised in the 1960s and has been controversial since then. This issue enters into the decision making on school finance in both legislatures and the courts. The historical research found little consistent or systematic relationship of...
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Late Bloomers : The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life
Bárány, Zsófia L.; Buchinsky, Moshe; Corblet, Pauline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
It is generally agreed upon that most individuals who acquire a college degree do so in their early 20s. Despite this consensus, we show that in the US from the 1930 birth cohort onwards a large fraction - around 20% - of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30. We explore the...
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Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale : The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment
Bleiberg, Joshua; Brunner, Eric J.; Harbatkin, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Federal incentives and requirements under the Obama administration spurred states to adopt major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale by exploiting the staggered timing of implementation...
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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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The Effects of Teacher Quality on Adult Criminal Justice Contact
Rose, Evan K.; Schellenberg, Jonathan T.; Shem-Ṭov, Yotam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates teachers' impacts on their students' future criminal justice contact (CJC). Using a unique data set linking the universe of North Carolina public school data to administrative arrest records, we find a standard deviation of teacher effects on students' future arrests of 2.7...
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Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York
Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
School assignment in Boston and New York City came to national attention in the 1970s as courts across the country tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps enhancing integration. Urban school transportation is...
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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence On Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys
Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
elicit more accurate and complete information on independent contractors, including those who may be coded incorrectly as …
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The Evolution of Platform Gig Work, 2012-2021
Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
a measurement framework to account for high reporting thresholds on some information returns using returns from states … number of workers receiving information returns not subject to the 1099-K gap increased dramatically during the pandemic …, with least 5 million individuals receiving information returns from platform gig work by 2021, nearly all from …
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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data
Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...
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