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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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We develop a dynamic microsimulation model to project the labor force and economic dependency ratios in the United States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy...
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There has long been interest in the extent to which effects of social stratification extend and persist across generations. We take a novel approach to this question by asking whether birth order and sibling group size in the parental generation influences the educational attainment of their...
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In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high … school student survivors as adults in their twenties and early thirties. Our data on school shooting events is from a recent …, comprehensive database of school shootings compiled by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The analytic dataset contains …
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remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was …
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Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers, however, argue that contemporaneous test scores are a poor proxy for their permanent influence on students. This paper considers a new VA measure -- 'long-run VA' -- that captures...
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We evaluate the long-term effect of a "girl-friendly" primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression … non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start … school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed …
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of school discipline on student achievement, educational attainment and adult criminal activity. Using exogenous … variation in school assignment caused by a large and sudden boundary change and a supplementary design based on principal … school that has a one standard deviation higher suspension rate are 15 to 20 percent more likely to be arrested and …
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. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job …
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school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … attendance rates two school years later from .56 to .60. These attendance gains were driven primarily by outcomes in treatment …
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