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Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?
Gibbs, Chloe - 2011
Head Start is a federal early childhood intervention designed to reduce disparities in preschool outcomes. The first randomized experimental study of Head Start, the National Head Start Impact Study (NHSIS), found impacts on academic outcomes of .15 to .3 standard deviations measured at the end...
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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers market R&D. This means that our model rationalizes two...
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The effect of banning affirmative action on human capital accumulation prior to college entry
Antonovics, Kate; Backes, Benjamin - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
This paper examines how banning affirmative action in university admissions affects both overall academic achievement and the racial gap in academic achievement prior to college entry. Focusing on college-bound high school students, we use a difference-in-difference methodology to analyze the...
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Inequality of educational opportunity? : schools as mediators of the intergenerational transmission of income
Rothstein, Jesse - 2018
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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation
Mejía, Daniel (contributor); St. Pierre, Marc (contributor) - 2005
This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...
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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2014
For most of human history there existed a well-educated and innovative elite whereas mass education, market R&D, and high growth are phenomena of the modern period. In order to explain these phenomena we propose an innovation-driven growth model for the very long run in which the...
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The benefits and costs of head start
Ludwig, Jens; Phillips, Deborah A. - 2007
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Socio-economic inequality in Scottish education
Lester, James; McKendrick, Andrew; Sibieta, Luke - 2023
The next wave of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data will be published in December 2023. This will relate to PISA tests taken in 2022, the first wave of data after the COVID-19 pandemic. In advance of these new data, this report seeks to take stock of performance to date...
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Insuring Educational Risk : "It is the Quality of Education"
Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008
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Inequality of Educational Opportunity? Schools as Mediators of the Intergenerational Transmission of Income
Rothstein, Jesse - 2018
Chetty et al. (2014b) show that children from low-income families achieve higher adult incomes, relative to those from … higher income families, in some commuting zones (CZs) than in others. I investigate whether children's educational outcomes … transmission of parental income to children's educational attainment and achievement, on average, neither can explain a large share …
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