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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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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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Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when …
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In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of students from abroad quadruple …, the resources of colleges and universities, and labor markets in the United States and countries sending students …
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this decline is most pronounced amongst men beginning college at less-selective public 4-year schools and amongst students … preparedness of entering students and the component due to collegiate characteristics, including type of institution and resources …
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The pool of students in the global economy prepared for higher education and able to pay tuition at U.S. colleges and … students from China. Given the concentration of high quality colleges and universities in the U.S., there has been a … substantial increase in the demand for enrollment among students from abroad. At the same time, substantial declines in state …
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The rising importance of Information Technology (IT) occupations in the U.S. economy has been accompanied by an expansion in the representation of high-skill foreign-born IT workers. To illustrate, the share of foreign born in IT occupations increased from about 15.5% to about 31.5% between 1993...
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I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher effectiveness increases after a move to a different school, and I estimate teacher-school match effects using a mixed-effects estimator. Match quality "explains away" a quarter of,...
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