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The Impacts of Same and Opposite Gender Alumni Speakers on Interest in Economics

Patnaik, Arpita; Pauley, Gwyn C.; Venator, Joanna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What is the impact of male and female alumni speaker interventions in introductory microeconomics courses on student interest in economics? Using student-level transcript data, we estimate the effect of speakers on future course-taking in models which use untreated lectures as control groups,...

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What Did UWE Do for Economics?

Avilova, Tatyana; Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was...

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Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates

Borjas, George J. - 2000

complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their … understanding of the material. This paper addresses the question that is at the heart of these complaints: Do foreign-born teaching … university. The data suggest that foreign-born Teaching Assistants have an adverse impact on the class performance of …

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Educational Production

Lazear, Edward P. - 1999

their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching …

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The Pandemic's Effect on Demand for Public Schools, Homeschooling, and Private Schools

Musaddiq, Tareena; Stange, Kevin M.; Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic drastically disrupted the functioning of U.S. public schools, potentially changing the relative appeal of alternatives such as homeschooling and private schools. Using longitudinal student-level administrative data from Michigan and nationally representative data from the...

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Teaching and Incentives : Substitutes or Complements?

Allen, James E.; Mahumane, Arlete; Riddell, James; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

intervention, respectively: 1) teaching, and 2) providing financial incentives to learners. In theory, teaching and learner … predicted that the two would be substitutes, we instead find they are complements. The combination of teaching and incentive …

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An Extra Year to Learn English? Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners

Figlio, David N. - 2019

In this study, we use microdata from 12 Florida county-level school districts and a regression discontinuity design to examine the effects of early grade retention on the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes of English learners. We find that retention in the third-grade substantially improves...

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Long-run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support : Evidence from Pathways to Education

Lavecchia, Adam M. - 2019

We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records are matched to income tax records to follow...

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Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?

Kedagni, Desire - 2019

Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do so both nonparametrically and parametrically, while controlling for potential endogeneity and allowing for quantile effects. We then embed our estimates for this relationship...

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Effect of Inquiry and Problem Based Pedagogy on Learning : Evidence from 10 Field Experiments in Four Countries

Bando, Rosangela - 2019

This paper uses data from 10 at-scale field experiments in four countries to estimate the effect of inquiry- and problem-based pedagogy (IPP) on students' mathematics and science test scores. IPP creates active problem-solving opportunities in settings that provide meaning to the child. Students...

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