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Angrist, Joshua D. - 2011

non-charter levels (that is, the average achievement level for urban non-charter students), and beyond non …

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...

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Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement : Evidence from New York City

Dobbie, Will - 2011

Publicly funded exam schools educate many of the world's most talented students. These schools typically contain higher …

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Long-Term Effects of Class Size

Fredriksson, Peter - 2011

This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...

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Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality? Evidence from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 Data

Ning, Guangjie - 2011

Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … of the personal earnings and income gap between different groups. We analyze the underlying mechanism of the impact of … labor market and work less time; all of these will have a pronounced impact on earning and income inequality. Quantile …

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Stepping Stones : Principal Career Paths and School Outcomes

Beteille, Tara - 2011

to work in schools with higher achieving students from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Principals often use … schools with many poor or low-achieving students as stepping stones to what they view as more desirable assignments. We use …

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How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement

Ronfeldt, Matthew - 2011

student observations over 5 years. The results indicate that students in grade-levels with higher turnover score lower in both … ELA and math and that this effect is particularly strong in schools with more low-performing and black students. Moreover …

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New Schools, New Leaders : A Study of Principal Turnover and Academic Achievement at New High Schools in New York City

Weinstein, Meryle - 2011

This condition report focuses on how principal turnover at new high schools affects school culture and student performance and how principals manage the transition to new leadership to minimize this impact. Using both quantitative and qualitative data on high schools in New York City, we examine...

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New Evidence on Rates of Return to Education in Pakistan

Ashraf, Javed - 2011

Relatively few articles have examined the rates of return to education in Pakistan in recent years. This paper uses data from the 2001-02 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey to compute returns from different levels of education. Returns to education are found to be higher for females than for...

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Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity : Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South

Cascio, Elizabeth - 2011

Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act substantially increased federal aid for education, with the goal of expanding educational opportunity. Combining the timing of the program's introduction with variation in its intensity, we find that Title I increased school spending by...

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