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Ranking up by moving out : the effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on property values

Cortes, Kalena E.; Friedson, Andrew I. - 2010

Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic …

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The effects of state merit aid programs on attendance at elite colleges

Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - 2015

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities to measure college quality and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data to measure enrollment, we...

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Uniform admissions, unequal access: did the Top 10% Plan increase access to selective flagship institutions?

Cortes, Kalena E.; Klasik, Daniel - 2020

The Top 10% Plan admissions policy has now been in place in Texas for over two decades. We analyze 18 years of post …-Top 10% Plan data to look for evidence of increased access to the selective Texas flagship campuses among all Texas high … schools. We provide a detailed description of changes in enrollment patterns at the flagship campuses from Texas high schools …

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Human capital and climate change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...

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Minding the gap: academic outcomes from pre-college programs

Kotlikoff, Phoebe; Rahman, Ahmed S.; Smith, Katherine A. - 2021

This paper analyzes the effects of assignment to a one-year college preparatory program on academic performance in college. To measure the value added from pre-college programs, we use a large dataset of United States Naval Academy students from the 1988 to 2018 graduating classes, of which a...

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Efficacy vs. equity : what happens when states tinker with college admissions in a race-blind era?

Black, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - 2014

-year graduation. Importantly, we take advantage of a unique institutional feature of the Texas higher education system to control for …

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Gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence: can compulsory schooling reduce it?

Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2020

We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of parents' educational attainment with their...

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Selection and educational attainment : why some children are left behind? : evidence from a middle-income country

Méndez-Errico, Luciana; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2019

We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as parental background or ethnicity matter across all...

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Tax elasticity of border sales : a meta-analysis

Dat Huynh; Sokolova, Anna; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2022

When regions in close proximity have different tax rates, residents may engage in cross-border shopping and take advantage of tax differentials. The extent of this activity can be captured by the tax elasticity of border sales (TEBS). We collect 749 estimates of TEBS reported in 60 studies, and...

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Asian segregation and scholastic achievement : evidence from primary schools in New York City

D'Este, Rocco; Einiö, Elias - 2018

This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on academic performance of non-Asian students in New York City public primary schools. We use plausibly exogenous variation in the share of Asian students stemming from a fertility shock among the Asian population in the year of the Dragon,...

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