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Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
Chou, Shin-Yi; Liu, Jin-Tan; Grossman, Michael; Joyce, Ted - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 33-61
schools at a differential rate among regions. Within each region, we exploit variations across cohorts in new junior high …
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Immigration and Inequality
Card, David - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 1-21
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How Policymakers Should Deal with the Delayed Benefits of Early Childhood Programs
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
provides home visits and educational toys and books to disadvantaged families when the child is between the ages of 2 and 3 …
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Distributional Effects of Early Childhood Programs and Business Incentives and Their Implications for Policy
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
provides home visits and educational toys and books to disadvantaged families when the child is between the ages of 2 and 3 …
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Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (2011) 3, pp. 158-87
Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), an ambitious social experiment, combines community programs with charter schools. We … mathematics and ELA. We conclude with evidence that suggests high-quality schools are enough to significantly increase academic …
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On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access
Agostinelli, Francesco; Luflade, Margaux; Martellini, Paolo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
provision. We find that low-income families prioritize proximity to schools while high-income families and families with high …-income families are less exposed to the inflow of low-income children into their schools, either because of their longer distance from …We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is determined by the set of schools …
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Schools as places of crime? : evidence from closing chronically underperforming schools
Steinberg, Matthew P.; Ukert, Benjamin; MacDonald, John M. - In: Regional science & urban economics 77 (2019), pp. 125-140
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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Chapter 8. School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 383-421). 2011
School accountability—the process of evaluating school performance on the basis of student performance measures—is increasingly prevalent around the world. In the United States, accountability has become a centerpiece of both Democratic and Republican federal administrations' education...
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The impact of a comprehensive school reform policy for weak schools on educational achievement : results of the first 4 years
Elk, Roel van; Kok, Suzanne - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 164 (2016) 4, pp. 445-476
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