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Measuring and correcting monotonicity bias : the case of school entrance age effects
Attar, Itay; Cohen-Zada, Danny; Elder, Todd E. - 2024
impact on monotonicity bias of bandwidth selection in regression discontinuity (RD) designs, finding that "full sample …
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The relationship between health and schooling : what's new?
Grossman, Michael - 2015
Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is … much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The … relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may also reflect "omitted third variables" that cause health and …
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Spillover effects of early-life medical interventions
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Daysal, N. Meltem; Simonsen, … - 2015
VLBW cutoff have better short- and long-term health, and higher math test scores in 9th grade. We next investigate … spillover effects on siblings and find no evidence of an impact on their health outcomes. However, we find substantial positive …
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What linear estimators miss : re-examining the effects of family income on child outcomes
Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2010
This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes. Motivated by theoretical predictions and OLS results that suggest a nonlinear relationship, we depart from previous studies in allowing the marginal effects on children’s...
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The effect of teach for America on the distribution of student achievement in primary school : evidence from a randomized experiment
Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - 2013
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we find that TFA teachers neither help...
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The more, the better? : the impact of instructional time on student performance
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, … - 2016
Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity of research examining the effectiveness of its use. We build on the work of Lavy (2015) using the variance of subject-specific instruction time within Switzerland to determine...
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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills : are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?
Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - 2014
The international surveys of pupil achievement - PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS - have been widely used to compare socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on children's reports of family or home characteristics rather...
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Neighborhood effects in education
Del Bello, Carlo L.; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2015
Using unique geo-coded information on the residential address of a representative sample of American adolescents and their friends, we revisit the importance of geographical proximity in shaping education outcomes. Our findings reveal no evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social...
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The elite illusion : achievement effects at Boston and New York exam schools
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Pathak, Parag A. - 2012
Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of school characteristics in the housing market can be seen in the jump in house prices at school district boundaries where peer characteristics change. The question of whether...
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Selective schools and academic achievement
Clark, Damon (contributor) - 2007
In this paper I consider the impact of attending a selective high school in the UK. Students are assigned to these schools on the basis of a test taken in primary school and, using data on these assignment test scores for a particular district, I exploit this rule to estimate the causal effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003661547