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two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …
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I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …
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-ability college students. The Longhorn Opportunity Scholars (LOS) and Century Scholars (CS) programs recruited at specified low-income … combined with adequate supports and financial aid can substantially increase enrollment of low-income students in higher …We study two interventions in Texas that were designed to overcome multiple hurdles faced by low-income, high …
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-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …
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are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on students. We theorize that if budget …
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teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both students' cognitive and noncognitive skill. Results …
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Uniform use in public schools is rising, but we know little about how they affect students. Using a unique dataset from …
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access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …
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) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using school panel data, we find a significant … significantly impact the standardized test scores of students with Spanish as their home language (comprised primarily of ever …-LEP students). However, there are significant positive spillover effects to their non-LEP peers …
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Using value-added models, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socioemotional development (SED) by …
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