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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption : Evidence from a 'Xeroxed' Exam

Borcan, Oana - 2012

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …

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Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools

Gilligan, Daniel O. - 2018

In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to drop out before reaching the end of primary school. These educators hope to avoid the negative...

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Who Teaches the Teachers? A Rct of Peer-to-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools

Murphy, Richard - 2018

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can have lasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, we conduct...

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Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools

Braga, Michela - 2019

Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...

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Assessing Teacher Quality in India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2014

Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject specific teachers at the senior secondary level, we estimate the importance of individual teachers on student outcomes in the high-stake senior secondary exam (at the...

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Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten

Araujo, Maria Caridad - 2016

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of math, language and executive function (EF) at the end...

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Determinants of Teacher Value-Added in Public Primary Schools : Evidence from Administrative Panel Data

Tanaka, Ryuichi - 2020

This study estimates teacher value-added (TVA) for language arts and mathematics test scores of students in public primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman,...

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Who Benefits from Kipp?

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2011

The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that features a long school day, an extended school year, selective...

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Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?

Guarino, Cassandra M. - 2012

We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment scenarios. No one method...

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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...

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