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Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy : The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China
Qian, Nancy - 2009
Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for … households where the children are of the same sex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463676
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Who Benefits From Attending Effective Schools? Examining Heterogeneity in High School Impacts
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2020
We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviours in 9th-grade) for students who are more versus less educationally advantaged (i.e., likely to attain more years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482413
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The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes : Evidence from Randomized Lotteries
Cullen, Julie Berry - 2003
School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts seeking to enhance academic achievement. Evaluating the impact of such programs is complicated by the fact that a highly select sample of students takes advantage of these programs. To overcome this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468581
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School Choice and School Productivity (or Could School Choice be a Tide that Lifts All Boats?)
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2002
A school that is more productive is one that produces higher achievement in its pupils for each dollar it spends. In this paper, I comprehensively review how school choice might affect productivity. I begin by describing the importance of school productivity, then explain the economic logic that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469842
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Public School Choice : An Economic Analysis
Barseghyan, Levon - 2014
Public school choice programs give households a free choice of public school and provide schools incentives to compete for students. Proponents of these programs argue that by the usual market logic, choice and competition will improve the quality of the education that schools provide. Critics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457965
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Keepin' 'em Down on the Farm : Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling
Jensen, Robert - 2017
the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when … limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity … attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455559
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Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance
Hotz, V. Joseph - 2013
stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in … later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459119
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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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Charter School Practices and Student Selection : An Equilibrium Analysis
Epple, Dennis N.; Martínez-Mora, Francisco; Romano, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We model charter school entry and choice of educational practices. Student achievement depends on cognitive ability, motivation, effort, and match of school curriculum to ability. Exercising charter school autonomy over curriculum, to maximize achievement gains, the charter sets curriculum to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794557
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Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries
Cullen, Julie Berry - 2007
In this paper, we examine whether expanded access to sought-after schools can improve academic achievement. The setting we study is the "open enrollment" system in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). We use lottery data to avoid the critical issue of non-random selection of students into schools....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465206