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This paper provides a tractable theoretical model designed to capture the targeting incentives created by benchmark testing. Under high-stakes benchmark testing, schools and teachers are judged on the fraction of students that meet some given level of educational attainment. The incentive for...
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higher risk of later grade retention and dropout. Leveraging existing school inputs for a light-touch, cost-effective, and …
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today, representing waste in school resources. We investigate whether reducing parent-school information gaps can improve … of positive classroom spillovers. Leveraging existing school inputs to implement a light-touch, cost …
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-grade cohort in the American Community Survey. Cohorts with more exposure are more likely to graduate from high school and earn …
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The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By … high-school grades is indeed 6 percent when obtained on central exams but less than 2 percent when obtained on local exams …
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The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By … high-school grades is indeed 6 percent when obtained on central exams but less than 2 percent when obtained on local exams …
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of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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I use a structural matching model, North Carolina public school data, and a survey of teachers' career plans to analyze …
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