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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...

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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra E. - 2012

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...

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PLUS or Minus? : The Effect of Graduate School Loans on Access, Attainment, and Prices

Black, Sandra E.; Turner, Lesley J.; Denning, Jeffrey T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the … in constrained students' persistence or degree receipt. We document that among programs in which a larger share of … graduate students had exhausted their annual federal loan eligibility before the policy change--and thus were more exposed to …

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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1996

This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory findings in the debate over school resources and school effectiveness by highlighting the role of aggregation in the presence of omitted variables bias. While data aggregation for well-specified linear models yields unbiased parameter estimates,...

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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?

Black, Sandra E. - 2014

College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....

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