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Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance

Lindert, Peter H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This essay proposes a set of non-econometric tests using data on wage structure, school resource costs, public expenditures, taxes, and rates of return to explain anomalies in which richer political units deliver less education than poorer ones. Both the anomalies of education history, and its...

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School Turnarounds: Evidence from the 2009 Stimulus

Dee, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) targeted substantial School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the nation's "persistently lowest achieving" public schools (i.e., up to $2 million per school annually over 3 years) but required schools accepting these awards to implement a...

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When Educators Are the Learners: Private Contracting by Public Schools

Gordon, Nora E.; Forbes, Silke J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We investigate decision-making and the potential for social learning among school administrators in the market for school reform consulting services. Specifically, we estimate whether public schools are more likely to choose given Comprehensive School Reform service providers if their "peer"...

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Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries

Cullen, Julie Berry; Jacob, Brian A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

issue of non-random selection of students into schools. Our analysis sample includes nearly 450 lotteries for kindergarten … and first grade slots at 32 popular schools in 2000 and 2001. We track students for up to five years and examine outcomes … explanations. Moreover, we separately examine effects for a variety of demographic subgroups, and for students whose application …

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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.

Hoxby, Caroline; Aghion, Philippe; Dewatripont, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and competition for research funding. We show that university...

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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement

Oreopoulos, Philip; Hoffmann, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

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The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

Lochner, Lance; Belley, Philippe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper uses data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth cohorts (NLSY79 and NLSY97) to estimate changes in the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment for youth in their late teens during the early 1980s and early 2000s. Cognitive ability plays an...

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Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution

Lindert, Peter H.; Nafziger, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Just how unequal were the incomes of different classes of Russians on the eve of Revolution, relative to other countries, to Russia's earlier history, and to Russia's income distribution today? Careful weighing of an eclectic data set provides provisional answers. We provide detailed income...

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The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State

Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...

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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Galor, Oded; Ashraf, Quamrul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...

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