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Stand and Deliver : Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2013

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of attendance at Boston's charter high schools on college preparation, college attendance, and college choice. Charter attendance increases pass rates on the high-stakes exam required for high school graduation in Massachusetts, with especially...

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The Short-Term Effects of School Consolidation on Student Achievement : Evidence of Disruption?

Voldby Beuchert, Louise - 2016

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school consolidation and up to four years after. We find that...

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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income

Anelli, Massimo - 2016

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...

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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children

Makles, Anna - 2016

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...

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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes

Autor, David H. - 2016

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …

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Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2021

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …

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The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling - A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining...

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Why Birthright Citizenship Matters for Immigrant Children : Impacts on Parental Educational Choices

Felfe, Christina - 2016

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool … children with similar educational opportunities as children in native families. This paper examines whether the introduction of …

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The Effects of School Integration : Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program

Bergman, Peter - 2016

This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...

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Inefficient School Choice in a Long-Run Urban Equilibrium

Kamecke, Ulrich - 2014

We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed mechanisms, the deferred acceptance and the Boston algorithm, both produce inefficient outcomes and that the Boston mechanism is more efficient than deferred acceptance. This...

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