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Lazear, Edward P. - 2021

their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … ranges away from equilibrium levels will adversely affect educational output. The theory argues for a particular non … by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested …

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Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions

Krueger, Alan B. - 2022

This paper analyzes data from Project STAR, an experiment in which 11,600 Tennessee kindergarten students and teachers were randomly assigned to one of three types of classes beginning in the 1985-86 school year: small classes (13-17 students), regular-size classes (22-25 students) teacher's...

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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs : The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya

Glewwe, Paul; Kremer, Michael; Moulin, Sylvie; … - 2021

This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts are used suggest that flip charts raise test scores by up to 20 percent of a standard deviation....

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The Productivity of Schools and Other Local Public Goods Providers

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2021

I construct an agency model of local public goods producers with special reference to public schools. The model assumes that households make Tiebout choices among jurisdictions, but it has more realistic assumptions about information and the cost of residential mobility. I examine producers'...

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Using Market Valuation to Assess Public School Spending

Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 2021

In this paper we use a 'market-based' approach to examine whether increased school expenditures are valued by potential residents and whether the current level of public school provision is inefficient. We do so by employing an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the effect of state...

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Competition between Private and Public Schools : Testing Stratification and Pricing Predictions

Epple, Dennis N.; Figlio, David N.; Romano, Richard E. - 2021

When there are peer effects in education, private schools have an incentive to vary tuition to attract relatively able students. Epple and Romano (1998) develop a general equilibrium model characterizing equilibrium pricing and student selection into schools when peer effects are present. The...

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The 'Pupil' Factory : Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools

Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2016

Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fifty traditional public elementary schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment schools altered their schedules to have teachers...

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The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice

Avery, Christopher - 2015

School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of their neighborhood. However, the introduction of choice programs affect incentives to live in certain neighborhoods, which may undermine the goals of choice...

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Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

Currie, Janet M. - 2013

We examine the effect of air pollution on school absences using unique administrative data for elementary and middle school children in the 39 largest school districts in Texas. These data are merged with information from monitors maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency. To control for...

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Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice : The Design of New Orleans' Oneapp

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2017

In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a...

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