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one or more cohorts of students take three or more tests in the subject of interest (e.g., state assessments in three …
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students were randomly assigned to receive supplementary tutoring during the 2021-22 school year (N=818). The study occurred in … a large Southeastern district serving predominantly Black and Hispanic students. Students assigned to the program were …
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widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …
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Several recent studies use the schooling and wage variation between monozygotic twins to estimate the return to schooling. In this paper, we summarize the results from this literature, and we examine the implications of endogenous determination of which twin goes to school longer and of...
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In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and Krueger use quarter of birth as an instrument for educational attainment in wage equations. To support a causal interpretation of their estimates, they argue that compulsory...
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The study presented here uses data from the NORC General Social Surveys to explore the effects of measurable school characteristics on student achievement. What separates this study from many others is the use of aggregate data on older cohorts, usually associated with research on the influence...
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-experimental variation in state spending. Unlike previous measures, we find that high-income-modest-ability students especially benefit since … students. This implies that the net benefits to students who do not attend public colleges is negative. However, they miss … private colleges admit, what prices they charge, and the number of students who enroll in any college. We show that capturing …
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are able to make good decisions about whom to hire, these reforms have the potential to benefit schools and students … (certification exam scores; college competitiveness) are more likely to apply for transfer, while teachers whose students demonstrate …
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teachers resulted in average improved achievement for students in the poorest decile of schools of .03 standard deviations …
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, while less effective transfers stay in lower-performing schools, likely exacerbating the differences across students in the …
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