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Quantile regression estimates of the effect of student absences of academic achievement

Gershenson, Seth; McBean, Jessica Rae; Tran, Long - 2018

previously-estimated average effects to predict benefits. Moreover, it suggests that interventions that target all students would …

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Long-run trends in the U.S. SES-achievement gap

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....

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The effects of state merit aid programs on attendance at elite colleges

Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - 2015

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …

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Do grow-your-own programs work? : evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland

Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, … - 2024

schools, finding that exposed students were more likely to become teachers by 0.6 percentage points (pp), or 47%. Effects are …

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What differences a day can make : quantile regression estimates of the distribution of daily learning gains

Hayes, Michael S.; Gershenson, Seth - 2015

estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. However, the extant literature's focus on … number of school days between kindergarten students' fall and spring tests in the nationally representative Early Childhood … Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). The marginal effect of a typical 250-day school-year on kindergarten students …

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Identifying and producing effective teachers

Gershenson, Seth - 2021

students' test scores as well as their attendance, behavior, and earnings as adults. However, students do not enjoy equal …

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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument

Winters, John V. - 2014

Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education decisions, I instrument for individual schooling using...

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Are student absences worth the worry in US primary schools?

Gershenson, Seth; Jacknowitz, Alison; Brannegan, Andrew - 2015

both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina … to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students …

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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