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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment

Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...

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The Effects of Public Housing on Children : Evidence from Colombia

Camacho, Adriana; Duque, Valentina; Gilraine, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program was generous, giving free housing to beneficiaries in desirable areas. We evaluate the program by leveraging housing lotteries and linking applicants to their children. We find...

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Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31

Gertler, Paul J.; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We report the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a … neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987-1989, treatment consisted of a two-year home-based intervention designed to … improve nutrition and the quality of mother-child interactions to foster cognitive, language and psycho-social skills. The …

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External Capital Structures and Oil Price Volatility

Burger, John D. - 2010

oil price shocks. We study two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks, an oil-importer (Jamaica) and an …

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Institutions vs. Policies : A Tale of Two Islands

Henry, Peter Blair - 2008

for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter … 1960 to 2002, Barbados' GDP per capita grew roughly three times as fast as Jamaica's. Consequently, the income gap between … Barbados and Jamaica is now almost five times larger than at the time of independence. Since their property rights and legal …

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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774

Burnard, Trevor - 2017

wealth Jamaica was the most unequal place in the pre-modern world. Furthermore, all of these characteristics applied to the …

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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : a 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica

Gertler, Paul - 2013

We find large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught...

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Making Teaching Last : Long-Run Value-Added

Gilraine, Michael; Pope, Nolan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers, however, argue that contemporaneous test scores are a poor proxy for their permanent influence on students. This paper considers a new VA measure -- 'long-run VA' -- that captures...

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Education Quality and Teaching Practices

Bassi, Marina - 2016

document that quality of teacher-student interactions is positively correlated with the performance of low income students …

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Targeted Remedial Education : Experimental Evidence from Peru

Saavedra, Juan - 2017

the setting of a developing country. At 48 low-income public elementary schools in Lima, Peru and surrounding areas, third …

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