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mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …
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Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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We examine the impact of having a same-race teacher on students' long-run educational attainment. Leveraging random … student-teacher pairings in the Tennessee STAR class-size experiment, we find that black students randomly assigned to a black … students to update their beliefs about the returns to effort and what educational outcomes are possible. Using testable …
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …
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disadvantaged students. Finally, results from supplementary analyses suggest that these deleterious effects faded out in subsequent …
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