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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices
Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
new needs of the industry by enrolling more in vocational secondary education. We also observe a decrease in academic high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377189
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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328914
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Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?
Briole, Simon; Maurin, Eric - 2019
education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have …' core pedagogical skills. These positive effects persist over time and are particularly salient in education priority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006008
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Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the “feminization” of elementary school teaching is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786989
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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291327
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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700689
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How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252291
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Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination
Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alex; … - 2022
A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351959
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Gender, Perceived Discrimination and the Overruling of Roe v. Wade
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Secor, Alan - 2025
Have the recent changes in reproductive rights changed women's perceptions of discrimination and fair treatment relative to men's perceptions? To address this question, we collected online survey data (N=1,374) during spring 2023 using a randomized design that provided information about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015398812
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Evaluating Specification Tests in the Context of Value-Added Estimation
Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; Stacy, Brian; … - 2014
We study the properties of two specification tests that have been applied to a variety of estimators in the context of value-added measures (VAMs) of teacher and school quality: the Hausman test for choosing between random and fixed effects and a test for feedback (sometimes called a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333259