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Teacher Performance Pay, Coaching, and Long-Run Student Outcomes

Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

composition of teacher workforce, and that program benefits far exceeded its costs. We propose mechanisms for observed long …

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Why Do Employers Establish Retirement Savings Plans? Evidence from State "Auto-IRA" Policies

Bloomfield, Adam; Goodman, Lucas; Rao, Manita; Slavov, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Several states have recently attempted to boost retirement saving by adopting "auto-IRA" policies that require employers not currently offering an employer-sponsored retirement plan (ESRP) to either (1) establish an ESRP or (2) enroll employees in state-facilitated Individual Retirement Accounts...

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Retirement Benefit Distributions for California Educators

Clark, Robert L.; Pelletier, Denis; Ritter, Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Distribution choices by individuals retiring from CalSTRS are examined for participants that retired between 2016 and 2023. Women are much more likely to select a member-only annuity while a larger proportion of men select a J&S annuity that provide survivor benefits. Being married is a dominant...

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Private Equity for Pension Plans? Evaluating Private Equity Performance from an Investor's Perspective

Korteweg, Arthur; Panageas, Stauros; Systla, Anand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We evaluate private equity (PE) performance using investor-specific stochastic discount factors, and examine whether investors could benefit from changing their allocation to PE. Plans invest in PE funds with higher average risk-adjusted performance. This is mainly due to access to successful PE...

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Mutual Fund Revenue Sharing in 401(k) Plans

Pool, Veronika K.; Sialm, Clemens; Stefanescu, Irina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Recordkeepers in DC pension plans are often paid indirectly in the form of revenue sharing from third-party funds on the menu. We show that these arrangements affect the investment menu of 401(k) plans. Revenue-sharing funds are more likely to be added to the menu and are less likely to be...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Hong, Harrison G.; Shore, Edward P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

categorize the literature into seven tests: (1) costs of capital, (2) performance of portfolios, (3) ownership by types of …

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Stress Relief? : Funding Structures and Resilience to the Covid Shock

Forbes, Kristin; Friedrich, Christian; Reinhardt, Dennis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper explores the relationship between different funding structures--including the source, instrument, currency …, and counterparty location of funding--and the extent of financial stress experienced in different countries and sectors …-sector-time panels to assess how different funding structures are related to financial stress. A higher share of funding from non …

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A Different World : Enduring Effects of School Desegregation on Ideology and Attitudes

Kaplan, Ethan; Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Tuttle, Cody - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

In 1975, a federal court ordered the desegregation of public schools in Jefferson County, KY. In order to approximately equalize the share of minorities across schools, students were assigned to a busing schedule that depended on the first letter of their last name. We use the resulting...

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College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification

Bleemer, Zachary; Mehta, Aashish - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less lucrative fields of study since the mid-1990s. A decomposition reveals that this widening gap is principally explained by rising stratification at public research universities, many of which...

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Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences of Ability Tracking : Evidence from Texas Public Schools

Antonovics, Kate; Black, Sandra E.; Cullen, Julie Berry; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve learning since instruction is more effective when students are more homogeneous, while opponents argue it exacerbates initial differences in opportunities without strong...

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