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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890110
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Differential Pricing in Undergraduate Education: Effects on Degree Production by Field
Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
as an alternative to across-the-board tuition increases. This practice aligns price more closely with instructional costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951022
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Knowledge, Tests, and Fadeout in Educational Interventions
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Staiger, Doug - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Educational interventions are often evaluated and compared on the basis of their impacts on test scores. Decades of research have produced two empirical regularities: interventions in later grades tend to have smaller effects than the same interventions in earlier grades, and the test score...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271467
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The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function: Evidence from the MIT Department of Biology for 1970-2000
Conti, Annamaria; Liu, Christopher C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Considerable attention has been focused, in recent years, on the role that graduate and postdoc students play in the production of academic knowledge. Using data from the MIT Department of Biology for the period 1970-2000, we analyze the evolution over time of four fundamental aspects of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271487
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High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis
Murnane, Richard J.; Papay, John P.; Willett, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We ask whether failing one or more of the state-mandated high-school exit examinations affects whether students graduate from high school. Using a new multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach, we examine simultaneously scores on mathematics and English language arts tests. Barely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652899
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The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement
Dee, Thomas; Jacob, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act compelled states to design school-accountability systems based on annual student assessments. The effect of this Federal legislation on the distribution of student achievement is a highly controversial but centrally important question. This study presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628325
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The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence from Public Schooling
Jacob, Brian A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper studies the effect of employment protection on worker productivity and firm output in the context of a public school system. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631704
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The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size
Dee, Thomas; West, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Although recent evidence suggests that non-cognitive skills such as engagement matter for academic and economic success, there is little evidence on how key educational inputs affect the development of these skills. We present a re-analysis of follow-up data from the Project STAR class-size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828973
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Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery
Staiger, Doug; Hastings, Justine S.; Kane, Thomas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
quality experienced significant gains in test scores as a result of attending their chosen school, while children whose … stronger academics. Depending on one's own race and neighborhood, a preference for academic quality can either conflict with or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829034
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The Practice and Proscription of Affirmative Action in Higher Education:An Equilibrium Analysis
Romano, Richard Evans; Epple, Dennis; Sieg, Holger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
compete for students that differ by race, household income, and academic qualification. Colleges maximize a quality index that … preference to nonwhites to promote racial diversity. Equilibrium entails a quality hierarchy of colleges, so the model predicts … is particularly pronounced in the top third of the quality hierarchy of colleges. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829463