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Promoting Child Development in a Universal Preschool System : A Field Experiment
Rege, Mari - 2019
This study tests an intervention that introduces a structured curriculum for five-year olds into the universal preschool context of Norway. We conduct a field experiment with 691 five-year-olds in 71 preschools and measure treatment impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and...
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The Affordable Care Act and the Market for Higher Education
Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2019
Through changing the connection between insurance and employment, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has affected people's incentives to obtain education. We employ a triple-difference strategy comparing counties with different levels of uninsurance pre-ACA and in states with different Medicaid...
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Closing the Gap between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England
Machin, Stephen J.; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2021
Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced ‘University Technical Colleges’ (UTCs) in 2010 for...
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Tutoring in (Online) Higher Education : Experimental Evidence
Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2022
Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small...
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The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students : The Role of Pre-College Choices
Tincani, Michela Maria; Kosse, Fabian; Miglino, Enrico - 2022
Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access based on individuals’ nationality. We apply a difference-in-difference approach using...
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before … changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation … participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male …
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Mavericks, Universal, and Common Owners - the Largest Shareholders of U.S. Public Firms
Amel-Zadeh, Amir; Kasperk, Fiona; Schmalz, Martin - 2022
We construct a novel data set to show that, between 2003-2020, up to one-fifth of America’s largest firms had a non-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional investors. Measures of “universal” and...
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Drivers of COVID-19 Vaccinations : Vaccine Administration and Delivery Efficiency in the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
This paper adds some formal research to the success of ongoing efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US states and place the formal analysis in the context...
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Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Housing Market in the United States
Yoruk, Baris - 2020
I use daily data from fifty major cities to investigate the early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing market in the United States. I find that starting from the second half of March, 2020, new home listings and pending home sales started to decrease. By mid-April, certain markets...
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