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Going to War and Going to College : Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?

Bound, John - 1999

widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …

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A New Method for Estimating Teacher Value-Added

Gilraine, Michael - 2020

This paper proposes a new methodology for estimating teacher value-added. Rather than imposing a normality assumption on unobserved teacher quality (as in the standard empirical Bayes approach), our nonparametric estimator permits the underlying distribution to be estimated directly and in a...

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Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide : The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans

Turner, Sarah E. - 2002

The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence...

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School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality

Gilraine, Michael; Petronijevic, Uros; Singleton, John D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

,000 per charter school enrollee. We further show that competition drives the aggregate gains; test score impacts on students …

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Making Teaching Last : Long-Run Value-Added

Gilraine, Michael; Pope, Nolan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers …, however, argue that contemporaneous test scores are a poor proxy for their permanent influence on students. This paper … test scores with subsequent test scores in VA estimation. We find that students assigned to high long-run VA teachers fare …

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Cohort Crowding : How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment

Bound, John - 2006

Analyses of college attainment typically focus on factors affecting enrollment demand, including the financial attractiveness of a college education and the availability of financial aid, while implicitly assuming that resources available per student on the supply side of the market are...

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