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Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - 2024

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We...

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Sibling spillovers may enhance the efficacy of targeted school policies

Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - 2023

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

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Intended college attendance : evidence from an experiment on college returns and cost

Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2015

Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the US have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a potential explanation for these patterns. For...

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Preferences and biases in educational choices and labor market expectations : shrinking the black box of gender

Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2013

Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these...

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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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The impact of COVID-19 on community college enrollment and student success : evidence from California administrative data

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022

This paper examines how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic outcomes of students in the California Community College System, the largest higher-education system in the country. Enrollment dropped precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of...

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The impact of COVID-19 on community college enrollment and student success : evidence from California administrative data

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022

Although enrollment at California's four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the pandemic...

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Diversity in schools: immigrants and the educational performance of U.S. born students

Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - 2021

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...

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Parental resources and college attendance: evidence from lottery wins

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2020

We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college …

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Estimating peer effects among college students : evidence from a field experiment of one-to-one pairings in STEM

Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2024

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by several major problems some of which cannot be solved even with random assignment. We design a field experiment and propose a new estimation technique to address these estimation...

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