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Human capital investment and globalization in extortionary states

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an … extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome … their education policies if highly productive labor is fully mobile. Extortionary governments' incentives for education …

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Using predictive analytics to track students: evidence from a seven-college experiment

Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodríguez, Julio - 2021

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to …

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The risks and benefits of school integration for participating students : evidence from a randomized desegregation program

Bergman, Peter - 2018

receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …

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Housing search frictions : evidence from detailed search data and a field experiment

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric; Kapor, Adam - 2020

This paper shows that imperfect information about school quality causes low-income families to live in neighborhoods with lower-performing, more segregated schools. We randomized the addition of school quality information onto a nationwide website of housing listings for families with housing...

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Better together? : social networks in truancy and the targeting of treatment

Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter - 2018

Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...

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School's out: experimental evidence on limiting learning loss using "low-tech" in a pandemic

Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Matsheng, Moitshepi - 2020

Schools closed extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and occur in other settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize learning loss when schools close. We run a randomized trial of low-technology...

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