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coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of single-sex schooling holding other school … national exams and are four percentage points more likely to complete secondary school. There are also important non …
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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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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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This paper tests the hypothesis that compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until … a specified birthday, induce a relationship between the years of schooling and age at school entry. Variation in school … start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school …
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school-based arrests, and increase high-school completion, college-going, and college persistence. Schools that improve … social well-being have larger effects on attendance and behavioral infractions in high school, while those that promote hard … work have larger effects on GPA. Importantly, school SED value-added is more predictive of school impacts on longer …
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We leverage the 1916 polio pandemic in the United States as a natural experiment to test whether short-term school … implemented quarantines and closed schools. Since the pandemic occurred during the start of the 1916 school year, children of … working age may have elected not to return to school. Using state-level polio morbidity as a proxy for schooling disruptions …
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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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-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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In this study, we use microdata from 12 Florida county-level school districts and a regression discontinuity design to … half and decreasing the likelihood of taking a remedial English course in middle school by one-third. Grade retention also … roughly doubles the likelihood of taking an advanced course in math and science in middle school, and more than triples the …
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