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STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees

Cohodes, Sarah R.; Ho, Helen; Robles, Silvia C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a...

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Gender-Neutral Language and Gender Disparities

Cohen, Alma; Karelitz, Tzur; Kricheli-Katz, Tamar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates empirically whether and how the use of gender-neutral language affects the performance of women …'s standardized college admission tests amended the language used in its exams, making test language more gender neutral. We find that … the change to a more gender-neutral language was associated with a significant improvement in the performance of women on …

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Sleep : Educational Impact and Habit Formation

Giuntella, Osea; Saccardo, Silvia; Sadoff, Sally - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

There is growing evidence on the importance of sleep for productivity, but little is known about the impact of interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both sleep and academic performance. Motivated by...

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Enhancing Human Capital in Children : A Case Study on Scaling

Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an educational mentoring program in Mexico. Our analysis encompasses two separate field experiments, and takes advantage of a unique opportunity to learn from the government's implementation of the program on a large...

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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … aggregate. Education and human capital is unevenly distributed among males and females, although both total and per capita human …

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Income Dynamics in Sweden 1985-2016

Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

dynamics differ substantially by gender, education, and origin. Men face lower volatility than women, but their earnings growth …

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The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction During the Pandemic

Goldhaber, Daniel D.; Kane, Thomas J.; McEachin, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using testing data from 2.1 million students in 10,000 schools in 49 states (plus D.C.), we investigate the role of remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was a primary driver of widening achievement gaps. Math...

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Air Pollution and Student Performance in the U.S

Gilraine, Michael; Zheng, Angela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We combine satellite-based pollution data and test scores from over 10,000 U.S. school districts to estimate the relationship between air pollution and test scores. To deal with potential endogeneity we instrument for air quality using (i) year-to-year coal production variation and (ii) a...

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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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The Effects of Public Housing on Children : Evidence from Colombia

Camacho, Adriana; Duque, Valentina; Gilraine, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program was generous, giving free housing to beneficiaries in desirable areas. We evaluate the program by leveraging housing lotteries and linking applicants to their children. We find...

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