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This paper examines the impact of public health insurance expansions through both Medicaid and SCHIP on children … time and across ages in children's health insurance eligibility. Using this approach, we find that test scores in reading …, but not math, increased for those children affected at birth by increased health insurance eligibility. A 50 percentage …
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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...
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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....
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tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …
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institutional data on college enrollment and program completion, we find that enrollment falls markedly among students at public two …-year institutions in response to increases in the minimum wage. The largest enrollment effects are seen for those students who are … of students who are unlikely to have been diverted from degree attainment …
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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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which school principals were provided with estimates of the performance of individual teachers in raising their students …
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as the difference in enrollment share black among students and teachers in a district. There were increases in the share …
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We estimate the effects of having more mature peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were …
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