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The effect of school finance reform on population heterogeneity

Aaronson, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1998

This paper tests whether state school finance reform alters neighborhood income homogeneity. One implication of the Tiebout model is that within-community homogeneity declines as a result of an exogenous decrease in the ability of jurisdictions to set local tax and expenditure levels. The...

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Using market valuation to assess the importance and efficiency of public school spending

Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2000

instrumental variables strategy to estimate the effect of state education aid on residential property values. We find evidence that …

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Teachers and student achievement in the Chicago public high schools

Aaronson, Daniel; Barrow, Lisa; Sander, William - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002

We match administrative data on Chicago public high school students and teachers at the classroom level to estimate the importance of teachers to mathematics test score gains. We show that sampling variation and other measurement issues are important drivers of naïve estimates of teacher...

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Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers

Jacobson, Louis; LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel G. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002

Studies show that high-tenure displaced workers typically incur substantial long-term earnings losses. As these losses have become increasingly apparent, policy makers have significantly expanded resources for retraining, much of which takes place in regular community college classes. To analyze...

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Private school location and neighborhood characteristics

Barrow, Lisa - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002

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Learning-by-doing, scale efficiencies, and financial performance at Internet-only banks

DeYoung, Robert - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2001

In theory, Internet-only banks should have low overhead expenses, and thus should be able to charge better prices (lower fees, higher deposit rates, lower loan rates) and still earn normal profits. To test this theory, this study compares the financial performance of 10 new Internet-only banks...

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School choice through relocation: evidence from the Washington, D.C. area

Barrow, Lisa - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1999

In this paper I show how the monetary value that parents place on school quality may be inferred from their choice of residential location. The method identifies the valuation that parents place on school quality from the differential effect that measures of school quality have on the...

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How did schooling laws improve long-term health and lower mortality?

Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2006

Although it is well known that there is a strong association between education and health much less is known about how … evidence that education has a causal effect on health. Using state compulsory school laws as instruments, Lleras-Muney finds … large effects of education on mortality. We revisit these results, noting they are not robust to state time trends, even …

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A new social compact: how university engagement can fuel innovation

Isaak, Larry; Mattoon, Rick; Melle, Laura - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2006

. This paper examines the degree to which their Higher Education Roundtable fits into the specific model of engagement … throughout the university system. This paper argues that qualitative outputs from higher education are often under reported in …

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The growing importance of family and community: an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings

Levine, David I.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2003

This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers’ earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...

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