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previously-estimated average effects to predict benefits. Moreover, it suggests that interventions that target all students would …
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schools, finding that exposed students were more likely to become teachers by 0.6 percentage points (pp), or 47%. Effects are …
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estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. However, the extant literature's focus on … number of school days between kindergarten students' fall and spring tests in the nationally representative Early Childhood … Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). The marginal effect of a typical 250-day school-year on kindergarten students …
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students' test scores as well as their attendance, behavior, and earnings as adults. However, students do not enjoy equal …
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both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina … to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students …
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the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …
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grading standards on student outcomes are relatively understudied. Using administrative data that links individual students … characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …
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Parental influences, particularly parents' occupations, may influence individuals' entry into the teaching profession … the role of parental influences on occupational choice by testing whether the children of teachers are disproportionately …. Overall, children whose mothers are teachers are 9 percentage points (or more than two times) more likely to enter teaching …
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secondary and post-secondary students' time use using time diaries from the American Time Use Survey. We apply a difference …. We find that on average, part-time college students in MML states spend 42 fewer minutes on homework, 37 fewer minutes … of MMLs on secondary or full-time college students. These results provide evidence on the mechanisms through which …
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programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …
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