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A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...
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Recent research has focused on what shapes gender differences in academic achievement and students' choice of university field of study. In this paper we examine how teachers' gender role attitudes and stereotypes influence the gender gap by affecting the school environment. We explore the...
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Recent research has focused on what shapes gender differences in academic achievement and students' choice of university field of study. In this paper we examine how teachers' gender role attitudes and stereotypes influence the gender gap by affecting the school environment. We explore the...
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Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in non-employment. We overcome these challenges with new administrative data on...
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Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do so both nonparametrically and parametrically, while controlling for potential endogeneity and allowing for quantile effects. We then embed our estimates for this relationship...
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Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do so both nonparametrically and parametrically, while controlling for potential endogeneity and allowing for quantile effects. We then embed our estimates for this relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479687