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Muriel, Alastair - 2011

Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their...

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Unawareness and Selective Disclosure : The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2017

The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality of schools to the Australian public. This paper combines data from this website with home sales data for the state of Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of...

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The 'Gravity' of Quality : Research Quality and Universities' Attractiveness in Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2017

This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003–2011 are regressed on several universities' research quality...

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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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Measuring Performance : Ranking State Success Over Two Decades in India

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka; Saattvic - 2022

This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...

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Effects of Measures of Teachers' Quality on Tertiary Education Attendance : Evaluation Tests Versus Value Added

Díaz, Juan; Sánchez, Rafael; Villarroel, Gabriel; … - 2021

Using Chilean administrative datasets for the period 2011-2017, we study which of the most used tools to evaluate teacher quality, namely teachers' evaluation tests (TET) and teacher's value added (TVA), predicts more accurately not only short run (as most of the literature focus on) but also...

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Social Preferences and Rating Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluations

Kusterer, David; Sliwka, Dirk - 2022

We study the determinants of biases in subjective performance evaluations in an MTurk experiment to test the implications of a standard formal framework of rational subjective evaluations. In the experiment, subjects in the role of workers work on a real effort task. Subjects in the role of...

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Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution : Evidence from Performance Measures

Kahn, Lisa B. - 2010

Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...

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Benchmarking Regions : Estimating the Counterfactual Distribution of Labor Market Outcomes

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2012

This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...

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