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Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance

Figlio, David N. - 2010

community is endogenous, and it is very difficult to disentangle the effects of individuals aging in place from that of dynamic … Tiebout sorting. The point of this paper is to carefully document the degree to which aging in place has occurred in the … identifying the causal effects of aging in place, we find that the share of elderly adults who age in place is negatively related …

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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes

Autor, David H. - 2018

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992–2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...

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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance

Figlio, David N. - 2016

We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...

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Do High Grading Standards Affect Student Performance?

Figlio, David N.; Lucas, Maurice E. - 2021

This paper explores the effects of high grading standards on student test performance in elementary school. While high standards have been advocated by policy-makers, business groups, and teacher unions, very little is known about their effects on outcomes. Most of the existing research on...

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