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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...
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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia
Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...
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Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan
Kuschminder, Katie; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
capacity building in the origin country through knowledge transfer, innovation and technological change. The paper specifically … examines the needs, expectations and delivery of knowledge through the TRQN project in Afghanistan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712238
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Innovation, Imitation, and Intellectual Property Rights
Helpman, Elhanan - 1992
analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …
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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …
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The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction During the Pandemic
Goldhaber, Daniel D.; Kane, Thomas J.; McEachin, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using testing data from 2.1 million students in 10,000 schools in 49 states (plus D.C.), we investigate the role of remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was a primary driver of widening achievement gaps. Math...
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Addressing Non-Financial Barriers to College Access and Success : Evidence and Policy Implications
Dynarski, Susan M.; Nurshatayeva, Aizat; Page, Lindsay C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Non-financial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic literature documents policy efforts to understand and address these barriers. We review this literature on non-financial...
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Air Pollution and Student Performance in the U.S
Gilraine, Michael; Zheng, Angela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We combine satellite-based pollution data and test scores from over 10,000 U.S. school districts to estimate the relationship between air pollution and test scores. To deal with potential endogeneity we instrument for air quality using (i) year-to-year coal production variation and (ii) a...
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The Effects of Public Housing on Children : Evidence from Colombia
Camacho, Adriana; Duque, Valentina; Gilraine, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program was generous, giving free housing to beneficiaries in desirable areas. We evaluate the program by leveraging housing lotteries and linking applicants to their children. We find...
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