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It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …
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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...
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strategies to estimate education production functions do not allow for varying role or development of unobserved ability as a … general depreciating pattern of observed inputs are both important when estimating education production functions …
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In this paper we determine how the receipt of gifted and talented (GT) services affects student outcomes. We identify the causal relationship by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility requirements and find that for students on the margin there is no discernable impact on achievement even...
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A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...
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government chooses income tax rates, per-student expenditure levels on public K-12 and college education, college tuition and the … and hence the quality of public education. More students would obtain college degrees due to increased enrollment. Over 86 …
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highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying …
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This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for … future research. After a brief review of theoretical frameworks on the link between education, innovation, and economic … growth, we explore three alternative policies to encourage innovation through education: expanding access to basic skills …
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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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Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward...
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