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Is the GED an effective route to postsecondary education for school dropouts?

Tyler, John; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2008

th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

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A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...

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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …

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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country

Cigno, Alessandro - 2011

outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child …

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How long do teacher effects persist?

Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2007

Previous findings from experimental and non-experimental studies have demonstrated that teachers differ in their effectiveness. In addition, evidence from non-experimental studies has indicated that teacher effects can last up to five years. This study used high-quality data from a four-year...

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Pay for percentile

Barlevy, Gadi; Neal, Derek - 2009

We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions our scheme induces teachers to allocate socially optimal levels of effort to all students....

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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added

Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012

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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Selective Schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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Do means-tested school lunch subsidies change children's weekly consumption patterns?

Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - 2009

This article examines whether the means-tested component of the National School Lunch Program changes beneficiaries …' dietary patterns by taking advantage of variation across public school districts in the financing of and demand for lunch and … nutrition programs. Using data on fifth grade public elementary school children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study …

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To segregate or to integrate: education politics and democracy

de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2007

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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