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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio - 2015

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … investments affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health …

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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective

Meghir, Costas - 2012

reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …

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Income, Schooling, and Ability : Evidence from a New Sample of Identical Twins

Ashenfelter, Orley; Rouse, Cecilia E. - 2021

We develop a model of optimal schooling investments and estimate it using new data on approximately 700 identical twins. We estimate an average return to schooling of 9 percent for identical twins, but estimated returns appear to be slightly higher for less able individuals. Simple cross-section...

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Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement : An Experimental Evaluation

Kane, Thomas J. - 2009

We used a random-assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non-experimental methods for estimating teacher effects on student test scores. Having estimated teacher effects during a pre-experimental period, we used these estimates to predict student...

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Measuring Test Measurement Error : A General Approach

Boyd, Donald - 2012

the total test measurement error that can be applied when one or more cohorts of students take three or more tests in the …

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Validating Teacher Effect Estimates Using Changes in Teacher Assignments in Los Angeles

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew - 2014

In a widely cited study, Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014a; hereafter CFR) evaluate the degree of bias in teacher value-added estimates using a novel "teacher switching" research design with data from New York City. They conclude that there is little to no bias in their estimates. Using the same...

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Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation

Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; … - 2021

Social connections are fundamental to human wellbeing. This paper examines the social networks of young married women in rural Odisha, India. This is a group for whom highly-gendered norms around marriage, mobility and work are likely to shape opportunities to form and maintain meaningful ties...

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One Step at a Time : The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

York, Ben - 2014

Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many … parenting programs place significant demands on parents' time and inundate parents with information. This study evaluates the … effects of READY4K!, an eight-month-long text-messaging intervention for parents of preschoolers that targets the behavioral …

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What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City

Kane, Thomas J. - 2010

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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National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness : Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment

Cantrell, Steven - 2017

submitted by teachers. We compared the performance of classrooms of elementary students in Los Angeles randomly assigned to … teacher impacts on student achievement. We found that students randomly assigned to highly-rated applicants performed better … than students assigned to comparison teachers, while students assigned to poorly-rated applicants performed worse …

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