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Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans : New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations

Costa, Dora L.; Lewis, CoraLee; Yetter, Noelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

mobility across generations. The data follow the children of Black and White Union Army veterans from birth to death, linking …

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The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...

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Integrating Minorities in the Classroom : The Role of Students, Parents, and Teachers

Gendre, Alexandra de; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salamanca, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

minority peers decreases student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement and it results in lower student test …

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Can Technology Facilitate Scale? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of High Dosage Tutoring

Bhatt, Monica P.; Guryan, Jonathan; Khan, Salman A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

High-dosage tutoring is an effective way to improve student learning (Nickow et al., 2024; Guryan et al., 2023). Finding ways to deliver high-dosage tutoring at large scale remains a challenge. Two primary challenges to scaling are cost and staffing. One possible solution is to reduce costs by...

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Retirement Benefit Distributions for California Educators

Clark, Robert L.; Pelletier, Denis; Ritter, Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Distribution choices by individuals retiring from CalSTRS are examined for participants that retired between 2016 and 2023. Women are much more likely to select a member-only annuity while a larger proportion of men select a J&S annuity that provide survivor benefits. Being married is a dominant...

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Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale : The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment

Bleiberg, Joshua; Brunner, Eric J.; Harbatkin, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale … graduation and college enrollment. We also find little evidence that the effect of teacher evaluation reforms varied by system … undercut the efficacy of teacher evaluation reforms at scale: political opposition, the decentralized structure of U.S. public …

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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...

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Teacher Performance Pay, Coaching, and Long-Run Student Outcomes

Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

composition of teacher workforce, and that program benefits far exceeded its costs. We propose mechanisms for observed long …

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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study the comprehensive teacher and principal evaluation and compensation systems …-reaching reform, educator evaluations that are used to support teacher growth and determine salary depend on a combination of …

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The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students' Lifetime Well-Being

Card, David E.; Domnisoru, Ciprian; Sanders, Seth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than...

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