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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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Pay for percentile

Barlevy, Gadi; Neal, Derek - 2009

We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions our scheme induces teachers to allocate socially optimal levels of effort to all students....

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Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

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Teacher pay, class size and local governments: Evidence from the Latvian reform

Hazans, Mihails - 2010

This paper employs a rich collection of survey and administrative datasets, including linked school-teacher payroll data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of 2008-2010, immediately after territorial reform. We...

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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - 2012

With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure job preferences, particularly regarding location. General skills are also tested. Urban origin teachers and women are more averse to remote locations than rural origin teachers...

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On Expectations, Realizations and Partial Retirement

Mastrogiacomo, Mauro - 2004

This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpectedshock in their financial situation around retirement and … distribution of expectations andrealizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pes-simistic and attach more …

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Inactivity in Hungary - the persistent effect of the pension system

Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2007

active working life. Retirement through either of these pensions was and in 2006 still is an accessible exit route from the … labour market that provides a minimal but secure income flow. For those reaching the minimum legal retirement age, retirement … system make retirement very attractive, especially for those with bad labour market prospects. Accepting that this system was …

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Estimating retirement behavior with special early retirement offers

Eklöf, Matias; Hallberg, Daniel - 2006

We model retirement behavior in Sweden during the 1990ies with focus on voluntary early retirement where there is an … retirement. Earlier studies have neglected such offers, but in doing so, estimates of the individuals' responses to financial … incentives in a retirement decision are likely to be biased upward. We propose an estimation strategy where the retirement …

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Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach

Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - 2015

Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...

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Identifying the Incidence of "Grading on a Curve": A Within-Student Across-Subject Approach

Piopiunik, Marc; Schlotter, Martin - 2012

Theoretical work shows that grading on a curve, i.e., teachers assessing students relativeto their classmates, can negatively affect students' learning effort. However, little isknown about its empirical incidence. To overcome bias from non-random sorting andomitted variables like teachers'...

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