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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...

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Measuring quality for use in incentive schemes : the case of "shrinkage" estimators

Mehta, Nirav - 2018

Researchers commonly "shrink" raw quality measures based on statistical criteria. This paper studies when and how this transformation’s statistical properties would confer economic benefits to a utility-maximizing decisionmaker across common asymmetric information environments. I develop the...

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Alternative measures of teachers' value added and impact on short and longterm outcomes : evidence from random assignment

Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...

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Teacher subject knowledge, didactic skills, and student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Bietenbecker, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022

We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include individual-level information on student achievement and...

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A partial identification approach to identifying the determinants of human capital accumulation: an application to teachers

Mehta, Nirav - 2022

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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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...

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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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Islam and human capital in historical Spain

Cinnirella, Francesco; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2020

This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing yearly data on Muslim presence in the period 711-1492 and literacy rate in 1900 for about 7500 municipalities in Spain, we estimate the local impact of the length of Muslim rule in...

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Mapping educational disparities in life-cycle consumption

Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Sigurður Páll Ólafsson; … - 2022

income for different education groups and to estimate the level of consumption smoothing. We split households into three … groups based on educational attainment: primary education, secondary school, and university. We find that the university … with less education. This implies that investing in education is an investment not only in higher income and sometimes more …

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