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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...

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Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium

Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

; compounded over 5 years of primary schooling, this difference is similar in size to the test score gap between low- and high-income … countries. Second, students learn more in private schools (0.15 sd per year on average), but substantial within-sector variation … in quality means that the effects of reallocating students from public to private schools can range from -0.35sd to +0 …

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Crowding in Private Quality : The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education

Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

markets with several public and private schools are now pervasive in low- and middle-income countries, prudent policy requires …

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Accounting for the Widening Mortality Gap Between Adult Americans with and without a BA

Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine mortality differences between Americans with and without a four-year college degree over the period 1992 to 2021. From 1992 to 2010, both groups saw falling mortality, but with greater improvements for the more educated; from 2010 to 2019, mortality fell for those with a BA and rose for...

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Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations

Espinosa, Miguel; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study direct productivity changes and spillovers after a randomized training program for the frontline workers in a Colombian government agency. While trained workers improved their individual production, we also find substantial spillovers that affected managers' productivity. We use email...

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Attrition from Administrative Data : Problems and Solutions with an Application to Postsecondary Education

Foote, Andrew; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper examines the bias arising from individuals' migration from administrative outcome data, with a focus on the labor market consequences of postsecondary education. We find that out-of-state migration is particularly problematic for high-earners, flagship graduates, and certain majors....

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The Effects of Teacher Quality on Adult Criminal Justice Contact

Rose, Evan K.; Schellenberg, Jonathan T.; Shem-Ṭov, Yotam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates teachers' impacts on their students' future criminal justice contact (CJC). Using a unique data … deviation of teacher effects on students' future arrests of 2.7 percentage points (11% of the sample mean). Teachers' effects on …

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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 …

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The Race Between Education, Technology, and Institutions

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I generalize the canonical model--in which relative supply and demand for worker skills shape the skill premium--incorporating monopsony power, minimum wages, and unemployment. I estimate the extended canonical model using national data and, separately, state-level data. I show that...

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The Returns to College Major Choice : Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability

Andrews, Rodney J.; Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …

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