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The Impact of Public School Choice : Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice

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Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that created small high school...

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Classroom Competition, Student Effort, and Peer Effects

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This paper studies how rewards based on class rank affect student effort and performance using a game-theoretic classroom competition model and data from the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees in the US. The paper finds that variation in the presence of strong or weak students changes the...

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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment

Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...

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We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to … general equilibrium overlapping generations model with intergenerational linkages, a higher education choice as well as a … disciplined by US household survey data on income, wealth, education and time use. Studying the transitions induced by unexpected …

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Women's Colleges and Economics Major Choice : Evidence from Wellesley College Applicants

Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals, but because who is in a field may shape what is studied by it. If increasing the rate of majoring in mathematically-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then...

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Poverty graduation with cash transfers : a randomized evaluation

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An empirical investigation of peer effects on fertility preferences

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