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Does public information about school quality lead to flight from low-achieving schools?

Friesen, Jane; Javdani, Mohsen; Woodcock, Simon - 2009

We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is revealed. In general, parents respond to information soon...

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Does immigration induce 'native flight' from public schools? Evidence from a large scale voucher program

Gerdes, Christer - 2010

Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper...

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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition: Evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system

de Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011

A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across municipalities. We find that reducing the number of schools by 10 percent increases pupils'...

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Independent schools and long-run educational outcomes: Evidence from Sweden's large scale voucher reform

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2012

This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...

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What determines religious school choice? Theory and evidence from rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chakrabarti, Rupa; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012

This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where children are a source of old age transfers. The amount of old age transfers made by children as...

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The evolution of inequality, heterogeneity and uncertainty in labor earnings in the US economy

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph - 2007

A large empirical literature documents a rise in wage inequality in the American economy. It is silent on whether the increase in inequality is due to greater heterogeneity in the components of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether it is due to greater uncertainty faced by agents....

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Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earning data

Dale, Stacy; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...

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Explaining charter school effectiveness

Angrist, Joshua; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, Christopher R. - 2012

Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter schools in other settings do not. Using the largest available sample of lotteried applicants to charter schools, we explore student-level and school-level explanations for this...

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Decision-making by children

Lundberg, Shelly; Romich, Jennifer; Tsang, Kwok P. - 2007

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and … cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement, we examine the determinants of shared and sole decision-making in seven …

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Cognitive skills explain economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2008

Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...

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