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What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers

Jacob, Brian A. - 2005

This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes … including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents … families in higher-income schools …

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Educational Expectations and Attainment

Jacob, Brian A. - 2010

expectations during high school and beyond. The results indicate that expectations rose for all students with the greatest … data demonstrate that the majority (about 60 percent) of students update their expectations at least once between eighth …

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Where the boys aren't : Non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education

Jacob, Brian A. - 2002

Nearly 60 percent of college students today are women. Using longitudinal data on a nationally representative cohort of … eighth grade students in 1988, I examine two potential explanations for the differential attendance rates of men and women …

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New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

Engel, Mimi - 2011

Recent evidence on the large variance in teacher effectiveness has spurred renewed interest in teacher labor market policies. A substantial body of prior research documents that more highly qualified teachers tend to work in more advantaged schools, although this literature cannot determine the...

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The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes : Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2003

achievement. Evaluating the impact of such programs is complicated by the fact that a highly select sample of students takes …-taking, and credit accumulation. This is true despite the fact that those students who win the lotteries attend better high …

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The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reform Efforts in Chicago

Jacob, Brian A. - 2002

reading performance of elementary students. We find that marginal increases in-service training have no statistically or … not be sufficient to increase the achievement of elementary school children in high poverty schools …

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