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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read : A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - 2011
increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school … after the end of the program and outside of school, although at lower rates. The program also increased students' scores on …
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School Entry, Compulsory Schooling, and Human Capital Accumulation : Evidence from Michigan
Hemelt, Steven W. - 2016
Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We … employ a regression-discontinuity (RD) design using longitudinal administrative data to examine effects on high school …
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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy
de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021
The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...
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Enriching Students Pays Off : Evidence from an Individualized Gifted and Talented Program in Secondary Education
Booij, Adam S. - 2016
We examine the effect of a gifted and talented program in academic secondary education. Students are assigned based on a cutoff score in a cognitive aptitude test, which we exploit in a fuzzy regression discontinuity framework to identify program effects. We find that assigned students obtain...
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo; … - 2021
combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …
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Covid-19 School Closures and Parental Labor Supply in the United States
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2021
We examine the role of school closures in contributing to the negative labor market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic …. We collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which we merge to individual level … 2019 through May 2020. Using a difference-in-differences estimation approach, we gauge how the intensity of school closures …
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Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2009
This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in various interrelated decisions that people make over the life cycle, including investments in secular human capital, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, family size and employment....
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences : Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015
develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … for 20-35 percent of the current variation in per-capita GDP among states, with roughly even contributions by school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016365