Similar Search Results

Career Changers in Teaching Jobs : A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System

Hof, Stefani - 2011

This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122973

The Intergenerational Transmission of Teaching

Jacinto, Alberto - 2019

Parental influences, particularly parents' occupations, may influence individuals' entry into the teaching profession. Importantly, this mechanism may explain the relatively static demographic composition of the teaching force over time. We assess the role of parental influences on occupational...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870279

The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students

Mansour, Hani - 2018

data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the effects of being … students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910738

Do They Understand the Benefits from Education? Evidence on Dutch High School Students' Earnings Expectations

Mazza, Jacopo - 2011

students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124778

Intergenerational Education Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Chen, Wen-hao; Corak, Miles - 2021

We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324910

How Do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-Added

Dieterle, Steven - 2013

researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A key concern is the extent to which nonrandom sorting of students to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088655

Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?

Stacy, Brian - 2013

characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it … teacher's students.The differences are large in magnitude and statistically significant. The year-to-year stability level of … students compared to teachers with initially lower performing students. In addition, some differences are detected even when …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073857

Teacher Literacy and Numeracy Skills : International Evidence from PIAAC and All

Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2016

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others in the bottom percentiles, while in some countries they...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981514

Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement

Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew; … - 2022

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multi-dimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083884

$Cover Image$

The Effect of High School Rank in English and Math on College Major Choice

Delaney, Judith - 2020

Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate … mediator – students who rank high in math are more likely to choose STEM subjects in school and this can partly explain their …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844825