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Skill-Specific Rather then General Education : A Reason for Us-Europe Growth Differences?

Krueger, Dirk; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2021

either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …

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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 …

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Class Size and Class Heterogeneity

De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2010

We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. Our identification strategy relies on the random assignment of students to teaching classes. We find...

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Children Left Behind : The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2011

We examine effects of state-level job losses on student achievement. Losses to 1% of the working-age population decrease eighth-grade math scores by .076 standard deviations, with consistently negative but less precise effects on eighth-grade reading and on fourth-grade math and reading. Effects...

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Knowledge, Tests, and Fadeout in Educational Interventions

Cascio, Elizabeth - 2012

even as its effect on knowledge does not. We evaluate this hypothesis by fitting a model of education production to …

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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of Nclb

Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013

The No Child Left Behind (NLCB) Act required states to adopt accountability systems measuring student proficiency on state administered exams. Based on student test score performance in 2002, states developed initial proficiency rate targets and future annual benchmarks designed to lead students...

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The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement

Dee, Thomas S. - 2009

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act compelled states to design school-accountability systems based on annual student assessments. The effect of this Federal legislation on the distribution of student achievement is a highly controversial but centrally important question. This study presents...

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Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

Dobbie, Will - 2009

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward...

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Left Behind by Design : Proficiency Counts and Test-Based Accountability

Neal, Derek A. - 2007

Many test-based accountability systems, including the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), place great weight on the numbers of students who score at or above specified proficiency levels in various subjects. Accountability systems based on these metrics often provide incentives for teachers...

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The Benefits and Costs of Head Start

Ludwig, Jens - 2007

In this essay we review what is known about Head Start and argue that the program is likely to generate benefits to participants and society as a whole that are large enough to justify the program's costs. Our conclusions differ importantly from those offered in some previous reviews because we...

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