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Effects of Scaling Up Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students
Figlio, David - 2020
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and a student fixed effect design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students' outcomes. Expansion of the program produced modestly larger...
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Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation : The Externalities of Add
Aizer, Anna - 2010
Recent work shows that peers affect student achievement, but the mechanisms are not well understood. I show that peer behavior is an important mechanism, perhaps more so than ability, by exploiting exogenous timing in diagnosis/treatment of ADD among peers that improves peer behavior while...
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Ability Tracking, School Competition, and the Distribution of Educational Benefits
Epple, Dennis; Newlon, Elizabeth; Romano, Richard E. - 2021
To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of tracking in public and private schools. We examine tracking's consequences for the allocation of students of differing abilities and income within and between public and private...
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Targeted Remedial Education for Under-Performing Teenagers : Costs and Benefits
Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia - 2021
There is renewed interest in ways to enhance secondary education, especially among disadvantaged students. This study evaluates the short-term effects of a remedial-education program that provided additional instruction to under-performing high-school students in Israel. The program targeted...
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Compulsory Schooling Legislation and School Attendance in Turn-of-The-Century America : A "Natural Experiment" Approach
Margo, Robert A.; Finegan, Aldrich - 2021
Recent research by Joshua Angrist and Alan Krueger has used information on exact dates of birth in the 1960 to 1980 federal censuses to study the impact of compulsory schooling laws on school attendance. This paper modifies their methodology to analyze similar data in the 1900 federal census to...
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The Failure of Input-Based Schooling Policies
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2021
In an effort to improve the quality of schools, governments around the world have dramatically increased the resources devoted to them. By concentrating on inputs and ignoring the incentives within schools, the resources have yielded little in the way of general improvement in student...
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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-Career Teachers
Taylor, Eric S. - 2011
The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem …. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of … mid-career public school teachers where we can consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …
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The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation : Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations
Dee, Thomas - 2016
In this paper, we show that the design and decentralized, school-based scoring of New York's high school exit exams – the Regents Examinations – led to the systematic manipulation of test sores just below important proficiency cutoffs. Our estimates suggest that teachers inflate...
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2010
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151371
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Reflections on Americans' Views of the Euro Ex Ante
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010
This paper was prepared for a session of the 2009 American Economic Association meeting devoted to examining the views of American economists about the euro and the European Economic and Monetary Union on the tenth anniversary of the euro. I had written an article in 1992 in the Economist and...
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