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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheusser, Gerd - CESifo - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount … determinant for performance differentials within cohorts. We find that the optimal policy is pro-competitive at later selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542014
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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and non Education Outcomes: The Case of Teenage Pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - CESifo - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogotá (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Acción, FA); both …
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Where Do You Come from, where Do You Go? Assessing Skills Gaps and Labour Market Outcomes of Young Adults with Different Immigration Backgrounds
Cathles, Alison - 2018
-generation immigrants has increased over time. Third, demographics and family background contribute to the achievement gaps between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911040
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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
Dawid, Herbert - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount … determinant for performance differentials within cohorts. We find that the optimal policy is pro-competitive at later selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107550
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075951
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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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Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies
Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of … the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an … college education subsidies and for the excess burden of income taxation caused by the college margin. We also show how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018704
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Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston's Charter High School on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice
Angrist, Joshua D.; Cohodes, Sarah R.; Dynarski, Susan M.; … - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693476
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Assessment Drives Learning: The Effect of Central Exit Exams on Curricular Knowledge and Mathematical Literacy
Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Senkbeil, Martin; … - CESifo - 2009
In this paper, we use data from the German PISA 2003 sample to study the effects of central exit examinations on student performance, student attitudes, and teacher behavior. Unlike earlier studies we use (i) a value-added measure to pin down the effect of central exit exams on learning in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979393