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This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...
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This paper studies how welfare outcomes in centralized school choice depend on the assignment mechanism when participants are not fully informed. Using a survey of school choice participants in a strategic setting, we show that beliefs about admissions chances differ from rational expectations...
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We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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This paper reviews a set of recent studies that have attempted to measure the causal effect of education on labor market earnings by using institutional features of the supply side of the education system as exogenous determinants of schooling outcomes. A simple theoretical model that highlights...
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The vast literature on human capital and earnings assumes that individuals know in advance that they will complete a particular program of schooling. This paper treats education as a sequential choice that is made under uncertainty. A simple two period structural model is used to explore the...
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Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of … outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances …
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particular, we use data on individual students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to … three schools used, students in the middle of the SAT distribution do somewhat worse in terms of grades if they share a room … with a student who is in the bottom 15 percent of the SAT distribution. Students in the top of the SAT distribution appear …
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This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...
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dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 …
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students, we demonstrate the power of behavioral economics to influence educational performance. Several insights emerge. First … that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were … less effective with older students. Third, and perhaps most importantly, consistent with hyperbolic discounting, all …
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