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Is there an educational penalty for being suspended from school?

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - In: Education economics 23 (2015) 4, pp. 376-395

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How effective are financial incentives for teachers? : linking teacher pay to student performance has become popular, but evidence on its effectiveness is mixed

Imberman, Scott A. - 2015

Concerns about poor student performance have led schools to diverge from traditional teacher compensation and base a …

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Are Effective Teachers for Students with Disabilities Effective Teachers for All?

Wood, W. Jesse; Lai, Ijun; Filosa, Neil R.; Imberman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The success of many students with disabilities (SWDs) depends on access to high-quality general education teachers. Yet, most measures of teacher value-added measures (VAM) fail to distinguish between a teacher's effectiveness in educating students with and without disabilities. We create two...

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Does the market value value-added? : evidence from housing prices after a public release of school and teacher value-added

Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - In: Journal of urban economics 91 (2016), pp. 104-121

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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

Tekin, Erdal; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

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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Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System

Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 2 (2015) 97, pp. 364-386

We estimate the impact of incentive strength on achievement under a group-based teacher incentive pay program. The system provides variation in the share of students in a subject-grade that a teacher instructs, which proxies for incentive strength. We find that achievement on incentivized exams,...

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The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Student Performance: Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program

Imberman, Scott A.; Kugler, Adriana D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In response to low take-up, many public schools have experimented with moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the …-in-differences identification strategy. Our main identification assumption is that schools where the program was introduced earlier would have …

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Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior

Gentile, Elisabetta; Imberman, Scott A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Uniform use in public schools is rising, but we know little about how they affect students. Using a unique dataset from … other outcomes. Each school in the district determines adoption independently, providing variation over schools and time. By … in elementary schools they generate large increases in teacher retention. …

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Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Students

Bui, Sa A.; Craig, Steven G.; Imberman, Scott A. - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6 (2014) 3, pp. 30-62

, and by analyzing a randomized lottery for elite magnet GT schools. We show that GT students in each analysis are exposed …

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Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices After a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added

Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …

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