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The fiscal and educational consequences of charter expansion for non-charter students are central issues in the debate … time, charter expansion has a small positive effect on non-charter students' achievement …
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We develop a Roy model of social interactions in which individuals sort into peer groups based on comparative advantage. Two key results emerge: First, when comparative advantage is the guiding principle of peer group organization, the effect of moving a student into an environment with...
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Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of … entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously …
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This paper examines academic peer effects in college. Unique new data from the Berea Panel Study allow us to focus on a mechanism wherein a student's peers affect her achievement by changing her study effort. Although the potential relevance of this mechanism has been recognized, data...
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18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior … time. Particularly notable is that behavior by underage students appears to drive the relationship …
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We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …
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mother on college attendance in the years immediately following high school fade out as students reach their later 20s and …
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Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K‐12 students … admission threshold, or a lower bar for disadvantaged students? We use data from a large urban school district to study the … impacts of assignment to separate gifted classrooms on three distinct groups of fourth grade students: non …
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