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Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...

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Learning Millennial-Style

Carlin, Bruce I.; Jiang, Li; Spiller, Stephen A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The growing use of on-line educational content and related video services has changed the way people access education, share knowledge, and possibly make life decisions. In this paper, we characterize how video content affects individual decision-making and willingness to share in the context of...

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Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools

Staiger, Doug; Rockoff, Jonah E.; Kane, Thomas J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The evidence that productivity varies greatly across teachers has given rise to the idea that student achievement data should be included in performance evaluation, despite limited empirical evidence on subjective evaluation or the use of objective performance measures in U.S. public schools. In...

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The Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure at End of Life

Skinner, Jonathan; Marshall, Samuel; McGarry, Kathleen M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

There is conflicting evidence on the importance of out-of-pocket medical expenditures as a risk to financial security, particularly at older ages. We revisit this question, focusing on health care spending near the end of life using data from the Health and Retirement Study for the years...

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In-State versus Out-of State Students: The Divergence of Interest between Public Universities and State Governments

Groen, Jeffrey A.; White, Michelle J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper examines the divergence of interest between universities and state governments concerning standards for admitting in-state versus out-of-state students. States have an interest in using universities to attract and retain high ability individuals because they pay higher taxes and...

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Lead Policy and Academic Performance: Insights from Massachusetts

Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Childhood exposure to even low levels of lead can adversely affect neurodevelopment, behavior, and cognitive performance. This paper investigates the link between lead exposure and student achievement in Massachusetts. Panel data analysis is conducted at the school-cohort level for children born...

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Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education

Acemoglu, Daron; Laibson, David; list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Internet-based educational resources are proliferating rapidly. One concern associated with these (potentially transformative) technological changes is that they will be disequalizing - as many technologies of the last several decades have been - creating superstar teachers and a winner-take-all...

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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a natural Experiment.

Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Fricke, Hans; Steinmayr, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …

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Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean

Pritchett, Lant; Summers, Lawrence H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Consensus forecasts for the global economy over the medium and long term predict the world's economic gravity will substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there are substantial reasons that China and India may...

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The Future of International Liquidity and the Role of China

Taylor, Alan M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper analyzes the consequences of the internationalization of the Chinese renminbi for the global monetary system and its possible ascension to reserve currency status. In an unstable and financially integrated world, governments' precautionary demand for reserve assets is likely to...

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