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Management and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Fryer, Roland G. - 2017
This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955792
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Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School : A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2010
-random distribution of teachers and students among classrooms within schools. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials affect … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759671
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Implications of Middle School Behavior Problems for High School Graduation and Employment Outcomes of Young Adults : Estimation of a Recursive Model
Karakus, Mustafa C. - 2010
The potentially serious adverse impacts of behavior problems during adolescence on employment outcomes in adulthood provide a key economic rationale for early intervention programs. However, the extent to which lower educational attainment accounts for the total impact of adolescent behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137733
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Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?
Hotz, V. Joseph; Xu, Lixin Colin; Tienda, Marta; … - 2021
This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...
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Does early bird catch the worm or a lower GPA? : evidence from a liberal arts college
Diette, Timothy M.; Raghav, Manu - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 31/33, pp. 3341-3350
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Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior
Gentile, Elisabetta - 2011
Uniform use in public schools is rising, but we know little about how they affect students. Using a unique dataset from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121054
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Investing in Schools : Capital Spending, Facility Conditions, and Student Achievement
Martorell, Paco - 2015
event-study analyses focusing on students that attend targeted schools and therefore exposed to major campus renovations …
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The Effect of School Starting Age on Special Needs Incidence and Child Development into Adolescence
Balestra, Simone - 2018
Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926555
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Teacher Quality in Educational Production : Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement
Rothstein, Jesse - 2010
Growing concerns over the achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or … students' test scores into components attributed to student heterogeneity and to teacher quality. Implicit in the VAM approach … are strong assumptions about the nature of the educational production function and the assignment of students to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758266
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Individual Teacher Incentives and Student Performance
Figlio, David N. - 2010
schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This …
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