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Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …

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Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

effects vary according to gender: they are large for men but not statistically different from zero for women. …

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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence

Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...

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Do Significant Immigrant Inflows Create Negative Education Impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina Public School System

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states. Given the perceived negative impact of significant immigrant inflows, we are interested in investigating if these inflows into a school affect the academic performance of native students who remain. To...

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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents’ involvement in children’s education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents’ involvement in education on … children’s educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …

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Peer Effects in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We examine the effect of peer achievement on students' own achievement and teacher performance in primary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods using data from a well-executed randomized experiment in seven states. Contrary to the existing literature, we find that the average classroom peer...

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Racial Identity and Education

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

friends (which is a measure of own identity) and the parent’s education that are responsible for the difference in education …

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Residential Peer Effects in Higher Education: Does the Field of Study Matter?

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Economists have a poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying reduced-form college peer effects. In this paper we explore a candidate mechanism, the provision of school effort. We show that, when earnings reflect individual educational performance as well as the field of study selected at...

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School and Drugs: Closing the Gap – Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...

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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra

Cortes, Kalena E.; Goodman, Joshua; Nomi, Takako - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...

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