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The Effects of Texas's Targeted Pre-Kindergarten Program on Academic Performance

Andrews, Rodney J.; Jargowsky, Paul; Kuhne, Kristin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

There has been a resurgence in research that investigates the efficacy of early investments as a means of reducing gaps in academic performance. However, the strongest evidence for these effects comes from experimental evaluations of small, highly enriched programs. We add to this literature by...

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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...

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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 …

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Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement

Wyckoff, James; Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pamela; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality teacher preparation is the most promising …

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Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

Staiger, Doug; Hastings, Justine S.; Kane, Thomas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We use parental rankings of their top three choices...

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Rising Public College Tuition and College Entry: How Well Do Public Subsidies Promote Access to College?

Kane, Thomas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

sensitivity of youth, using several sources of non-experimental variation in costs. The bulk of the evidence points to large …

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Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure

Figlio, David; Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Hannaway, Jane; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

While numerous recent authors have studied the effects of school accountability systems on student test performance and school "gaming" of accountability incentives, there has been little attention paid to substantive changes in instructional policies and practices resulting from school...

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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...

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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 …

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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. …

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