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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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Parental Educational Investment and Children's Academic Risk : Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility
Conley, Dalton - 2005
The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process has been one of the most robust effects in human capital and stratification research over the last few decades. For example, Featherman and Hauser (1978: 242-243) estimate that...
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Keepin' 'em Down on the Farm : Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling
Jensen, Robert - 2017
In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...
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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015
Using data from nationally representative household surveys, we test whether Indian parents make trade-offs between the number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint determination of quantity and quality of children by...
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How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions : The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes
Papay, John P. - 2011
Students receive abundant information about their educational performance, but how this information affects future educational-investment decisions is not well understood. Increasingly common sources of information are state-mandated standardized tests. On these tests, students receive a score...
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Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period : What Went Wrong in the 1970s?
Card, David - 2000
Over most of the 20th century successive generations of U.S. children had higher enrollment rates and rising levels of completed education. This trend reversed with the baby boom cohorts who attended school in the 1970s, and only resumed in the mid-1980s. Even today, the college entry rate of...
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Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor
Bau, Natalie - 2020
Policies that improve early life human capital are a promising tool to alter disadvantaged children's lifelong trajectories. Yet, in many low-income countries, children and their parents face tradeoffs between schooling and productive work. If there are positive returns to human capital in child...
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Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints
Attanasio, Orazio - 2009
In this paper we analyze the link between people's "subjective" expectations of returns to schooling and their decision … attendance decision, while for the college attendance decision the youths' expectations appear to be the relevant ones. These … results suggest that youths play an important role in the intra-family decision process about human capital investments. While …
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Charter School Practices and Student Selection : An Equilibrium Analysis
Epple, Dennis N.; Martínez-Mora, Francisco; Romano, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We model charter school entry and choice of educational practices. Student achievement depends on cognitive ability, motivation, effort, and match of school curriculum to ability. Exercising charter school autonomy over curriculum, to maximize achievement gains, the charter sets curriculum to...
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Inattention and Inequity in School Matching
Bucher, Stefan F.; Caplin, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The attractive properties of the Deferred Acceptance (DA) algorithm rest on the assumption of perfect information. Yet field studies of school matching show that information is imperfect, particularly for disadvantaged students. We model costly strategic learning when schools are ex ante...
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