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The Risks and Benefits of School Integration for Participating Students : Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program
Bergman, Peter - 2018
This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of such a program receiving students, this paper studies...
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Human Capital and Climate Change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A.; … - 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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Grades and Employer Learning
Toft Hansen, Anne; Hvidman, Ulrik; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2021
This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish universities. Results show that a reform-induced increase in GPA that is unrelated to ability...
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Endogenous Indoctrination : Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
institutions reinforce each other in slowing or preventing people from learning the correct underlying parameters …
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How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
Kimbrough, Erik O. - 2017
Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely … peer-to-peer teaching and ability tracking. While peer-to-peer teaching improves learning among low-ability subjects, the …
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Improving Learning Outcomes Through Information Provision : Evidence from Indian Villages
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
school quality is provided to households and schools. There are no significant improvements in the learning outcomes of … absenteeism but saw no improvements in learning outcomes possibly because of constrained school choice set. Overall, our results … suggest that information on the relative quality of schools can be a cheap and effective tool for improving learning outcomes …
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas - 2011
A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered implementation across Sweden. We first show that the...
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The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America
Smith, James P. - 2012
This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different...
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How Do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-Added
Dieterle, Steven - 2013
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
Stacy, Brian - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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