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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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.67 percentage-point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty; effects are much more pronounced for children from low-income …-representative data on children born between 1955 and 1985 and followed through 2011. We use the timing of the passage of court …
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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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different types of school finance reforms on per-pupil spending in low- and high-income school districts. We find that SFRs have … been instrumental in equalizing school spending between low- and high-income districts and many reforms do so by increasing … prices lead to increased spending growth, particularly for low-income districts …
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