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The rise of high-stakes accountability programs was one of the most noticeable changes in the U.S. education system … exposure to accountability modestly but detectably increased educational attainment – roughly .02 years per year of exposure …. Effects on income were positive, but again modest and insignificant in most specifications. Lastly, if accountability had …
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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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employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth …: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards with the objective to improve high-school graduation and post …
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, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school … robust and significant positive effects on educational attainment for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years …We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany …
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Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher …
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Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...
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Over the past 30 years, participation in Further Education (FE) in England has been markedly counter-cyclical. What is more, it has yet to increase beyond the peak of 70% reached in 1993, much to the concern of policy-makers. An obvious explanation for these facts is the availability of labour...
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This paper studies second-best policies in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. When young, individuals decide on education, saving, and nonqualified labour. When old, individuals supply qualified labour. Growth equilibria are inefficient in...
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outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child …
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