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average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …
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We examine the impact of a temporary price shock on the attainment of undocumented college students enrolled in a large … undocumented students. By fall 2002, the state legislature restored in-state rates. Using a differences … immediate 8 percent decrease in senior college students' enrollment. Senior college students who entered college the semester …
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out from tertiary education: SGL reduced the first year dropout rate by 6.8% for students enrolled in five-year colleges … incentivized higher education institutions to retain students at the expense of not securing the quality of education …
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College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …
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This paper examines the pathways by which individuals transition from healthy to disabled. Because of the high prevalence and costs associated with disability, understanding these pathways is critical to developing interventions to prevent or minimize disability. We compare two estimates of...
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Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income, the United States' two primary disability income support programs, each offer a pathway to public health insurance in addition to cash benefits. This implies that expansions in public health insurance availability, such as...
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This paper studies the labor market impacts of firm accommodation decisions and assesses implications for the design of social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides wage subsidies to firms for accommodating injured...
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Education beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital acquisition among adult women. Welfare reform, which began in the early 1990s and culminated in the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996, has promoted work...
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School quality and grade completion by students are shown to be directly linked, leading to very different perspectives … estimation of behavioral models of school leaving. Students perceive differences in school quality, measured as expected …
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Over the past decade, a technological breakthrough - hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" - has fueled a boom in oil and natural gas extraction by reaching shale reserves inaccessible through conventional technologies. We explore the educational response to fracking, taking advantage of the timing...
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