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Women's Colleges and Economics Major Choice : Evidence from Wellesley College Applicants
Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250162
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The Impact of Public School Choice : Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice
Campos, Christopher; Kearns, Caitlin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337787
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Standardized Test Scores and Academic Performance at Ivy-Plus Colleges
Friedman, John N; Sacerdote, Bruce; Staiger, Douglas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
We analyze admissions and transcript records for students at multiple Ivy-Plus colleges to study the relationship … academic outcomes with a normalized slope four times greater than that from high school GPA, all conditional on students' race … college performance for students from less advantaged backgrounds. Collectively these results suggest that standardized test …
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A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior
Coffman, Katherine B.; Ugalde Araya, Paola; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many decisions - such as what educational or career path to pursue - are dynamic in nature, with individuals receiving feedback at one point in time and making decisions later. Using a controlled experiment, with two sessions one week apart, we analyze the dynamic effects of feedback on beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660060
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Limited Supply and Lagging Enrollment : Production Technologies and Enrollment Changes at Community Colleges during the Pandemic
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Turner, Sarah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Weak labor markets typically lead young workers to invest in skills. High unemployment during COVID diverged from prior downturns: enrollment at community colleges dropped by 9.5 percent between 2019 and 2020, with the drop larger among men. COVID disruptions generated supply-side impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814414
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Sibling Spillovers May Enhance the Efficacy of Targeted School Policies
Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of...
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Busing to Opportunity? The Impacts of the METCO Voluntary School Desegregation Program on Urban Students of Color
Setren, Elizabeth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
socioeconomic integration. For over 50 years, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) has bussed students of … strongest for students whose parents did not graduate college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056191
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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 … there were few professional female exemplars other than teachers--and find that female students were more successful when … their primary-school teachers were disproportionately female. Impacts are lifelong: female students taught by female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388785
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Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty : Free College or Better Schools
Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to encourage college completion, such as making college free and improving funding for public schooling. To do so, we construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with...
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The long-run economic impact of AIDS
Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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