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Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York City
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Hu, Weiwei; Pathak, Parag A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the most wide-ranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reorganization of large … feedback, increased safety, and improved collaboration. The results show that school size is an important factor in education …
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Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement
Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886181
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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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The Evolution of Charter School Quality
Hanushek, Eric; Rivkin, Steven G.; Baude, Patrick L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of...
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The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment
Lochner, Lance; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Suleymanoglu, Utku - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950866
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB
Reback, Randall; Davidson, Elizabeth; Rockoff, Jonah E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The No Child Left Behind (NLCB) Act required states to adopt accountability systems measuring student proficiency on state administered exams. Based on student test score performance in 2002, states developed initial proficiency rate targets and future annual benchmarks designed to lead students...
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Tracing the Effects of Guaranteed Admission through the College Process: Evidence from a Policy Discontinuity in the Texas 10% Plan
Mayer, Adalbert; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed admission to public universities in Texas. We estimate the causal effects of this admissions guarantee on a sequence of connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission...
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The Effect of Child Health Insurance Access on Schooling: Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions
Cohodes, Sarah; Grossman, Daniel; Kleiner, Samuel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Public health insurance programs comprise a large share of federal and state government expenditures. Although a sizable literature analyzes the effects of these programs on health care utilization and health outcomes, little prior work has examined the long-term effects and resultant health...
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Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity
Wolfe, Barbara L.; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the continuing areas of controversy surrounding higher education is affirmative action. The Supreme Court has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951395
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Mocan, Naci H.; Cesur, Resul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory … secular education from five to eight years. We employ a unique nation-wide survey of adults in 2012 to investigate the impact … of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political preferences by using exposure to the law as an instrument for …
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