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The Effects of an Incentive-Based High-School Intervention on College Outcomes
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all ethnicities attend college in greater numbers, have...
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The Returns to Education in China : Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law
Fang, Hai - 2012
As China transforms from a socialist planned economy to a market-oriented economy, its returns to education are … for education: the China Compulsory Education Law of 1986. We use differences among provinces in the dates of effective … implementation of the compulsory education law to show that the law raised overall educational attainment in China by about 0.8 years …
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China's “Great Leap Forward” in Science and Engineering
Freeman, Richard B. - 2015
In the past two decades China leaped from bit player in global science and engineering (S&E) to become the world … latecomer to modern science and engineering, China trailed the US and other advanced countries in the quality of its … universities and research but was improving both through the mid-2010s. This paper presents evidence that China's leap benefited …
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Individual vs. Social Motives in Identity Choice : Theory and Evidence from China
Jia, Ruixue; Persson, Torsten - 2022
The same government policy that incentivizes individuals to make a certain choice can have different effects across groups due to the existence of social norms. In this paper, we study how Chinese ethnic policies that give material benefits to minorities affect ethnicity choices for children in...
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Going to a Better School : Effects and Behavioral Responses
Pop-Eleches, Cristian - 2011
This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128273
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Intergeneration Transfer of Human Capital : Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
Tsai, Wehn-Jyuan - 2011
We exploit a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on educational outcomes of their children when they are high school seniors. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and opened over 150 new junior high schools at a...
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Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection : Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2011
Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and...
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School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England : Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation
Pathak, Parag A. - 2011
In Fall 2009, officials from Chicago Public Schools changed their assignment mechanism for coveted spots at selective college preparatory high schools midstream. After asking about 14,000 applicants to submit their preferences for schools under one mechanism, the district asked them re-submit...
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Under Pressure : Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under Nclb
Reback, Randall - 2011
The most sweeping federal education law in decades, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, requires states to administer standardized exams and to punish schools that do not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for the fraction of students passing these exams. While the literature on school...
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Non-Production Benefits of Education : Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship
Lochner, Lance - 2011
A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these...
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