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Leveraging Technology to Engage Parents at Scale : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Bergman, Peter - 2017
While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953889
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979105
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Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bergman, Peter - 2015
investments in education and how much reducing these frictions can improve student achievement. In Los Angeles, a random sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020574
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Preferences, Selection, and Value Added : A Structural Approach Applied to Turkish Exam High Schools
Akyol, S. Pelin - 2013
What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students' success, or is their performance attributable to the higher ability of the students they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079378
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Beyond the Classroom : Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316244
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Preferences, Selection, and Value Added: A Structural Approach Applied to Turkish Exam High Schools
Akyol, S. Pelin; Frisancho, Verónica; Krishna, Kala M.; … - CESifo - 2013
What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students’ success, or is their performance attributable to the higher ability of the students they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671573
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996262
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Entry Through the Narrow Door : The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams
Machin, Stephen J. - 2018
In many countries, important thresholds in examinations act as a gateway to higher levels of education and/or good …-secondary high-level academic or vocational track and of starting tertiary education. Those who fail to pass the threshold are also … more likely to drop out of education by age 18, without some form of employment. The moderately high effects of just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916530
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094337
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583656