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John F. Kain
Researcher at University of Texas at Dallas
Publications - 104
Citations - 19428
John F. Kain is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Dallas. The author has contributed to research in topics: Academic achievement & Salary. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 104 publications receiving 18570 citations. Previous affiliations of John F. Kain include Ontario Ministry of Transportation & Harvard University.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,John F. Kain,Steven G. Rivkin,Steven G. Rivkin +5 more
TL;DR: The authors disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools, and estimates educational production functions based on models of achievement growth with individual fixed effects.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors disentangle the impact of schools and teachers in influencing achievement with special attention given to the potential problems of omitted or mismeasured variables and of student and school selection.
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Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization
TL;DR: In this paper, the distribution of negro employment and the level of non-white employment in the United States are discussed. But the authors focus on the residential segregation and do not consider the effect of nonwhite residential segregation on nonwhite employment.
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Why Public Schools Lose Teachers
TL;DR: This article found that teacher mobility is much more strongly related to characteristics of the students, particularly race and achievement, than to salary, although salary exerts a modest impact once compensating differentials are taken into account.
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Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement
TL;DR: The authors found that peer achievement has a positive effect on achievement growth and that students throughout the school test score distribution appear to benefit from higher achieving schoolmates, while the variance in achievement appears to have no systematic effect.