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Changing the Odds : Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Bachofer, Karen Volz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537764
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The Demand for Sons : Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2004
This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun … marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468412
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Domestic Violence and the Mental Health and Well-being of Victims and Their Children
Bhuller, Manudeep; Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Almost one third of women worldwide report some form of physical or sexual violence by a partner in their lifetime, yet little is known about the mental health and well-being effects for either victims or their children. We study the costs associated with domestic violence (DV) in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477285
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Skill-specific rather then General Education : A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences?
Krueger, Dirk - 2003
either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …
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