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acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …
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of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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This paper provides the first evidence that value-added education accountability schemes induce dynamic distortions. Extending earlier dynamic moral hazard models, I propose a new test for ratchet effects, showing that classroom inputs are distorted less when schools face a shorter horizon over...
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particularly large when the elderly residents and the school-age population are from different racial groups. Variation in the size … of the school-age population does not result in proportionate changes in education spending, so students in states with … larger school-age populations receive lower per-student spending than those in states with smaller numbers of potential …
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An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive. Instead they respond to … residential location and community choice, households base optimizing decisions on commuting costs, school quality, and land rents … income and tastes for schools. This model is used to analyze a series of conventional policy experiments, including school …
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private school increases with both income and ability, and, among private schools, the propensity to attend the highest …-tuition school rises with both income and ability. Within private schools, tuition declines with student ability, with a substantial … stronger predictors of private school attendance as public school expenditure falls. Income becomes increasingly important in …
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We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. In …
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To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …
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Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fifty traditional public elementary …
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Educational interventions are often narrowly targeted and temporary, and evaluations often focus on the short-run impacts of the intervention. Insofar as the positive effects of educational interventions fadeout over time, however, such assessments may be misleading. In this paper, we develop a...
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