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The Effects of Class Size and Composition on Student Achievement : New Evidence from Natural Population Variation
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 1998
reductions in class size from a base of 15 to 30 students have no effect on student achievement. The estimates are precise enough … the presence of black students in a class, in an of itself, has no effect on achievement. I demonstrate that estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471943
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2008
Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy for improving the retention and performance of new teachers, but we know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. I study the impact of mentoring in New York City, which adopted a nationally recognized mentoring program in 2004. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464779
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What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City
Kane, Thomas J. - 2006
We use six years of data on student test performance to evaluate the effectiveness of certified, uncertified, and alternatively certified teachers in the New York City public schools. On average, the certification status of a teacher has at most small impacts on student test performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466539
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The Returns to the Federal Tax Credits for Higher Education
Bulman, George B. - 2015
Three tax credits benefit households who pay tuition and fees for higher education. The credits have been justified as an investment: generating more educated people and thus more earnings and externalities associated with education. The credits have also been justified purely as tax cuts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457833
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Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York
Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334525
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The Long-Term Distributional Impacts of a Full-Year Interleaving Math Program in Nigeria
Haar, Lotte van der; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Kremer, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study reports the findings from a year-long randomized evaluation assessing the impact of assigning 62 classrooms in Nigeria to receive either blocked or interleaved math problem sets. Blocked practice sessions focused on a single skill at a time. Interleaved problem sets alternated between...
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Still worth the trip? : school busing effects in Boston and New York
Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465408
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Do and Should Financial Aid Packages Affect Students' College Choices?
Avery, Christopher - 2003
students respond to their menus' like rational human capital investors. Whether they make the investments efficiently is … aptitude students respond to aid in a way that apparently reduces their lifetime present value. While both a lack of … sophistication/information and credit constraints can explain the behavior of this 30 percent of students, the weight of the evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469221
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Information and Employee Evaluation : Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2010
which school principals were provided with estimates of the performance of individual teachers in raising their students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462415