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The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains
Lefgren, Lars; Jacob, Brian A.; Sims, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Educational interventions are often narrowly targeted and temporary, and evaluations often focus on the short-run impacts of the intervention. Insofar as the positive effects of educational interventions fadeout over time, however, such assessments may be misleading. In this paper, we develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830899
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614941
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Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet random variation in school … schools. In this paper, I use random assignment from a public school choice lottery to test the predictive power of VAM … specifications. In VAMs with minimal controls and two or more years of prior data, I fail to reject the hypothesis that school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119798
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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 agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas, and their ruling may well influence universities' diversity initiatives, especially if they overturn Grutter v. Bollinger and rule that diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951395
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Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom
Lavy, Victor Chaim; Paserman, M. Daniele; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
been affected by their classroom peers, and our estimates will not suffer from the reflection problem. Using within school … variation in the proportion of these low ability students across cohorts of middle and high school students in Israel, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037653
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Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
Remler, Dahlia K.; Pema, Elda - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based on research, both funded and unfunded. Some worry that faculty devoting more time to research harms teaching and thus harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042686
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The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study
Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
A serious difficulty in determining the importance of credit constraints in education arises because standard data sources do not provide a direct way of identifying which students are credit constrained. This has forced researchers to adopt a variety of indirect approaches. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085105
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Learning about Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision
Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
role in the drop-out decision. Among other possible factors of importance, while students who find school to be unenjoyable … are unconditionally much more likely to leave school, this effect arises to a large extent because these students also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718265
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Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation
Koedel, Cory; Betts, Julian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Value-added measures of teacher quality may be sensitive to the quantitative properties of the student tests upon which they are based. This paper focuses on the sensitivity of value-added to test-score-ceiling effects. Test-score ceilings are increasingly common in testing instruments across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828668
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Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines
Ehrenberg, Ronald; Jakubson, George H.; Martin, Mirinda L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities -trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in influencing the rate at which academic institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625929