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Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD … schools. The Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) program offers salary supplements to educators with records of high … performance who are willing to work in the most educationally disadvantaged schools. We document that ACE resulted in immediate …
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A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...
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