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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 Impact of School Spending on Civic Engagement : Evidence from School Finance Reforms

Asker, Erdal; Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A primary rationale for public provision of K-12 education and state financing of school spending is that education fosters civic engagement and the development of social capital. However, limited evidence exists on whether and how school spending affects civic engagement. Virtually all studies...

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U.S. School Finance : Resources and Outcomes

Handel, Danielle V.; Hanushek, Eric Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The impact of school resources on student outcomes was first raised in the 1960s and has been controversial since then. This issue enters into the decision making on school finance in both legislatures and the courts. The historical research found little consistent or systematic relationship of...

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Lasting Scars : The Impact of Depression in Early Adulthood on Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Wang, Buyi; Frank, Richard G.; Glied, Sherry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

this income penalty (21-39%) occurs because depression is often a chronic condition, recurring later in life. But a …

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Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness

Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter; Walters, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test scores and other outcomes. Widely-disseminated school ratings frameworks compare average student achievement...

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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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Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms : A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution

Haanwinckel, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a general equilibrium framework with firm and worker heterogeneity, monopsony power, and task-based production to quantify the long-run effects of education, biased demand shocks, and minimum wage. I take it to Brazilian data for 1998 and 2012 and find that (i) supply and...

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School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality

Gilraine, Michael; Petronijevic, Uros; Singleton, John D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

,000 per charter school enrollee. We further show that competition drives the aggregate gains; test score impacts on students …

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Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?

Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of workers followed through age 60, I show that growth in the college wage premium is primarily explained by occupational sorting. Shortly after graduating, workers...

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