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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation

Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...

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Teachers' training, class size and students' outcomes: learning from administrative forecasting mistakes

Bressoux, Pascal; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - 2008

environments. Hence, in order to match similar students and classes, we focus on pupils with novice teachers and discard those with …

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003

or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school … sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators …

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Teacher shortages, teacher contracts and their impact on education in Africa

Bourdon, Jean; Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2007

Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries …

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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China: evidence from new micro data

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2006

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on CEO turnover, ownership structure and board characteristics, we estimate Logit models of CEO turnover. We find consistently for all performance measures including both stock...

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A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...

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Peer effects in European primary schools: evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …

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How long do teacher effects persist?

Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2007

Previous findings from experimental and non-experimental studies have demonstrated that teachers differ in their effectiveness. In addition, evidence from non-experimental studies has indicated that teacher effects can last up to five years. This study used high-quality data from a four-year...

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Gains from Alternative Assignment? Evidence from a Two-Sided Teacher Market

Laverde, Mariana; Mykerezi, Elton; Sojourner, Aaron; … - 2025

may prioritize different goals. In assigning teachers to classrooms, a school district might prioritize student learning … within-district assignments of teachers to classrooms, using novel administrative data on teacher and school principal …

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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2008

nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … situation where the public schools essentially were monopolists on all local school markets, the degree of privatization has … private enrolment on short, medium and long-term educational outcomes of all pupils using within-municipality variation over …

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