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The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration

Lang, Kevin; Baker, Olesya - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We construct a state/graduation-cohort dataset using the Current Population Survey, Census and information on exit exams. We find relatively modest effects of high school exit exams...

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The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results

Lang, Kevin; Bond, Timothy N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Although both economists and psychometricians typically treat them as interval scales, test scores are reported using ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine the effect of order-preserving scale transformations...

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The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7

Lang, Kevin; Bond, Timothy N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We address the ordinality of test scores by rescaling them by the average eventual educational attainment of students with a given test score in a given grade. We show that measurement error in test scores causes this approach to underestimate the black-white test score gap and use an...

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Information and College Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Oreopoulos, Philip; Dunn, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks apart. Half of the students taking the first survey were also shown a 3 minute video about the benefits of post secondary education (PSE) and invited to try out a financial-aid...

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Pathways to Education: An Integrated Approach to Helping At-Risk High School Students

Oreopoulos, Philip; Brown, Robert S.; Lavecchia, Adam M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Pathways to Education is a comprehensive youth support program developed to improve academic outcomes among those entering high school from very poor social-economic backgrounds. The program includes proactive mentoring to each student, daily tutoring, group activities, career counseling, and...

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Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement

Fortin, Nicole M.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Phipps, Shelley - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Using three decades of data from the "Monitoring the Future" cross-sectional surveys, this paper shows that, from the 1980s to the 2000s, the mode of girls' high school GPA distribution has shifted from "B" to "A", essentially "leaving boys behind" as the mode of boys' GPA distribution stayed at...

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Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities

Oreopoulos, Philip; Lavecchia, Adam M.; Liu, Heidi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Behavioral economics attempts to integrate insights from psychology, neuroscience, and sociology in order to better predict individual outcomes and develop more effective policy. While the field has been successfully applied to many areas, education has, so far, received less attention - a...

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School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE

Lang, Kevin; Barua, Rashmi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Partly in response to increased testing and accountability, states and districts have been raising the minimum school entry age, but existing studies show mixed results regarding the effects of entry age. These studies may be severely biased because they violate the monotonicity assumption...

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How large are returns to schooling? Hint: Money isn't everything

Oreopoulos, Philip; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper explores the many avenues by which schooling affects lifetime well-being. Experiences and skills acquired in school reverberate throughout life, not just through higher earnings. Schooling also affects the degree one enjoys work and the likelihood of being unemployed. It leads...

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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

Lang, Kevin; Siniver, Erez - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross …-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education … explained by factors other than language acquisition. These results are confirmed using panel data on wages and knowledge of …

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