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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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The Good, the Bad and the Average : Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools

Lavy, Victor - 2009

ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …

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The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling

Abramitzky, Ran - 2018

schooling in Israeli kibbutzim. This pay reform, which induced kibbutz students to improve their academic achievements during … high school, spilled over to non-kibbutz members who attended schools with these kibbutz students. In the short run, peers … of kibbutz students improved their high school outcomes and shifted to courses with higher financial returns. In the …

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Teachers’ Pay for Performance in the Long-Run : Effects on Students’ Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in Adulthood

Lavy, Victor - 2015

adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain 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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Gifted Children Programs' Short and Long-Term Impact : Higher Education, Earnings, and the Knowledge-Economy

Lavy, Victor; Goldstein, Yoav - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We estimate the effects of gifted children programs (GCP) in high schools in Israel. We selected a comparison group of … equally gifted students from other cities where GCP was not offered at the time. Based on administrative data, we follow 22 … equally talented children in the knowledge economy. These results are very similar for females and males gifted children …

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Does Remedial Education at Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes and Inter-Generational Mobility

Lavy, Victor - 2018

improvement in outcomes of students from below median income families. Therefore, we conclude that remedial education program that … students were in their early 30s. Our evidence suggest that treated students experienced a 10 percentage points increase in … points in months employed, and a significant increase in intergenerational income mobility. These gains are reflecting mainly …

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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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