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Management and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 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 E. - 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, Jr - 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 Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2010

After decades of narrowing, the achievement gap between black and white school children widened in the 1990s - a period …

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Financial Incentives and Student Achievement : Evidence from Randomized Trials

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2010

be more effective because students do not know the educational production function, and thus have little clue how to turn …

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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Cunha, Flavio - 2005

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

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro - 2003

. 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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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education

Heckman, James J. - 2003

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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The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

Carneiro, Pedro - 2002

This paper examines the family income -- college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post … ability. Long-run factors crystallized in ability are the major determinants of the family income -- schooling relationship …

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