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Proponents of class size reductions draw heavily on the results from Project STAR to support their initiatives. Adding to the political appeal of these initiative are reports that minority and economically disadvantaged students received the largest benefits from smaller classes. We extend this...
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studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive … correlations between the level of education and the rate of technology adoption, however, do not necessarily reflect the true … causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study …
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As school leaders, principals can influence student achievement in a number of ways, such as: hiring and firing teachers, monitoring instruction, and maintaining student discipline, among others. We measure the effect of individual principals on gains in student math and reading achievement...
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. Examples are the health, education and general government sectors. The paper analyzes three possible general methods to measure …
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find that an additional month of relative age decreases the likelihood of receiving special education services by 2 …
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. Examples are the health, education and general government sectors. The System of National Accounts 1993 recommends valuing …
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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals’ transitions between employment and … unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers …. Given that positive correlations between education and labour force transitions are likely to be confounded by the …
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University) entitled “The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-employment Success: Evidence from the U ….S. Labour Market†investigates the impact of formal education on transitions between labour force states, especially the … transition from unemployment to employment. The study shows that education at both the secondary and post-secondary levels …
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This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
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We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. The approach allows to control for group-level unobservables and to solve the reflection problem, without imposing ad hoc exclusion restrictions or requiring...
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