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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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Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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symptoms, feeling sad and losing interest in usual activities for at least two consecutive weeks, among high school students … below, by over 15%. Coefficient sizes are similar when comparison groups are restricted to students engaging in correlated …
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school students during the 1990s and 2000s. The main innovations are explicitly controlling for time-invariant preferences … sex than protective behavior. Effects are much larger for the small fraction of students that has not been taught about …
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age 18-24 four-year college students. For having sex, overall or without condoms, large and significant positive … directly leads to risky sex. Some binge drinking-induced promiscuity seems to occur among students, especially males, involved … in long-term relationships. Effects are concentrated among non-Hispanic whites and are not apparent for students in two …
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This paper estimates the effect of paid employment on grades of full-time, four-year students from four nationally …
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18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior … time. Particularly notable is that behavior by underage students appears to drive the relationship …
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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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