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Carrot and stick? : impact of a low-stakes school accountability program on student achievement
Woo, Seokjin; Lee, Soohyung; Kim, Kyunghee - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Economics Letters
A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support to low-performing schools but has no direct punishment scheme for recipients who do not exhibit...
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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...
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Cost-sharing and use of health services in Italy : evidence from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost-sharing for health services consumption. Since the...
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Do second chances pay off? : evidence from a natural experiment with low-achieving students
Bizopoulou, Aspasia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Simion, … - 2022
In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that imposed a performance threshold for admission into postsecondary education...
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Sick and depressed? : the causal impact of a diabetes diagnosis on depression
Gaggero, Alessio; Gil, Joan; Jiménez-Rubio, Dolores; … - 2022
There is sparse evidence on the impact of health information on mental health as well as on the mechanisms governing this relationship. We estimate the causal impact of health information on mental health via the effect of a diabetes diagnosis on depression. We employ a fuzzy regression...
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Age of starting school, academic performance, and the impact of non-compliance: an experiment within an experiment, evidence from Australia
Beatton, Tony; Kidd, Michael P.; Niu, Anthony; Vella, … - 2021
This paper estimates the difference in academic performance of the oldest and youngest students in a given grade. We employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the population of state school students for the years 2008-2016. Academic performance is measured by...
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Wild bootstrap for fuzzy regression discontinuity designs : obtaining robust bias-corrected confidence intervals
He, Yang; Bartalotti, Otávio - 2019
This paper develops a novel wild bootstrap procedure to construct robust bias-corrected (RBC) valid confidence intervals (CIs) for fuzzy regression discontinuity designs, providing an intuitive complement to existing RBC methods. The CIs generated by this procedure are valid under conditions...
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Erasmus program and labor market outcomes : evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, … - 2023
We study the impact that participation in the Erasmus program produces on a number of labor market outcomes. By implementing a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design, we show that participating in the international mobility program positively affects the probability of being employed three years...
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Does it pay to attend more selective high schools? : regression discontinuity evidence from China
Huang, Bin; Li, Bo; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2022
We examine the effect of attending academically selective high schools on test scores, by leveraging administrative data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in 2010 with high school student records. The standard...
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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the manufacturing sector. We show that three of the BRICS are experiencing … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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