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Management and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Fryer, Roland G. - 2017

This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...

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Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools : Evidence from Seed

Curto, Vilsa - 2011

The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of...

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Information and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Cellular Phone Experiment

Fryer, Roland G. - 2013

This paper describes a field experiment in Oklahoma City Public Schools in which students were provided with free … cellular phones and daily information about the link between human capital and future outcomes via text message. Students …' reported beliefs about the relationship between education and outcomes were influenced by treatment, and treatment students …

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Schools, Skills, and Synapses

Heckman, James J. - 2008

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

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The Race between Demand and Supply : Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

Heckman, James J. - 2019

Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places his work in the perspective of research on inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies...

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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments

Eisenhauer, Phillipp - 2014

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...

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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro-Lozano, Salvador - 2021

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of …

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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, … - 2021

This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...

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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education

Heckman, James J.; Li, Xuesong - 2021

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, … - 2021

. Their study has been faulted because minority children and their parents may have pessimistic expectations about receiving … outcomes, minority parents and children have more pessimistic expectations about child schooling relative to white children and … their parents when their children are young. At later ages, expectations are more uniform across racial and ethnic groups …

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