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Education Research and Administrative Data

Figlio, David N. - 2015

large-scale, comprehensive data files on tax programs, workforce information, benefit programs, health, and education. While … education research. We also offer specific case studies of data that have been developed in both the Nordic countries and the … United States, and offer an (incomplete) inventory of data sets used by social scientists to study education questions on …

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When Evidence is Not Enough : Findings from a Randomized Evaluation of Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction (Ebli)

Jacob, Brian A. - 2015

This paper reports the results of an experimental evaluation of Evidence Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI). Developed over 15 years ago, EBLI aims to provide teachers with instructional strategies to improve reading accuracy, fluency and comprehension. Sixty-three teachers in grades 2-5 in seven...

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Parenting with Style : Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Doepke, Matthias - 2014

We develop a theory of parent-child relations that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian altruism and paternalism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via...

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Peer Effects in the Classroom : Learning from Gender and Race Variation

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2021

Peer effects are potentially important for understanding the optimal organization of schools, jobs, and neighborhoods, but finding evidence is difficult because people are selected into peer groups based, in part, on their unobservable characteristics. I identify the effects of peers whom a...

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Teaching Practices and Social Capital

Algan, Yann - 2015

education promotes social capital …

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Accountability, Incentives and Behavior : The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in the Chicago Public Schools

Jacob, Brian - 2021

The recent federal education bill, No Child Left Behind, requires states to test students in grades three to eight each … incentives along a variety of dimensions -- by increasing special education placements, preemptively retaining students and …

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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

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Identifying Effective Classroom Practices Using Student Achievement Data

Kane, Thomas J. - 2010

Recent research has confirmed both the importance of teachers in producing student achievement growth and in the variability across teachers in the ability to do that. Such findings raise the stakes on our ability to identify effective teachers and teaching practices. This paper combines...

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Taking PISA Seriously : How Accurate are Low Stakes Exams?

Akyol, Pelin - 2018

PISA is seen as the gold standard for evaluating educational outcomes worldwide. Yet, being a low-stakes exam, students may not take it seriously resulting in downward biased scores and inaccurate rankings. This paper provides a method to identify and account for non-serious behavior in...

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Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention : Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of “Teaching at the Right Level” in India

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016

Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant learning gains. In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts to scale up the NGO Pratham's approach to teaching children...

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