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-in-differences models that leverage within-individual and across-cohort variation in shooting exposure within matched school groups to … grade in the two years following the event. We also find adverse long-term impacts on the likelihood of high school … student and school characteristics indicate that the detrimental impacts of shootings are universal, with most sub …
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school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous calculations, we establish that (a) the true … high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the official rate issued by the National Center for Educational … and have not converged over the past 35 years; (d) the decline in high school graduation rates occurs among native …
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Substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap. Our results … within schools, and specific school and peer factors exert a significant effect on the growth in the achievement gap. Unequal … between grades 3 and 8. Moreover, non-random sample attrition for school changers and much higher rates of special education …
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The role of schooling and school quality in the economy has become very confused, in part because of attempts to argue … different positions on educational policy. Research demonstrates that school quality has a strong impact on individual earnings …, on the distribution of income, and on overall economic growth. In contrast to these long run factors, today's school …
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today, representing waste in school resources. We investigate whether reducing parent-school information gaps can improve … of positive classroom spillovers. Leveraging existing school inputs to implement a light-touch, cost …
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Catholic secondary schooling on high-school graduation rates and also examines Catholic schooling's effect on college … States. These measures of access provide potential instruments for Catholic school attendance. The results indicate that …
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I survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results … school and the increasing availability of the GED credential help to explain stagnation in the face of substantial gaps … between the wages of high school graduates and school dropouts. I point out that there are several hypotheses, but to date …
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This paper documents several facts about graduate program graduation rates using administrative data covering public and nonprofit graduate students in Texas. Despite conventional wisdom that most graduate students complete their programs, only 58 percent of who started their program in 2004...
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school enrollment figures in a perpetual-inventory framework to fill the remainder. The data refer to male and female …
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. Eliminating in-person schooling reduces the amount of labour time parents of school-aged children have available to work, and …
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