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In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and … of their estimates, they argue that compulsory school attendance laws alone account for the association between quarter … strong to be fully explained by compulsory school attendance laws in the samples studied by Angrist and Krueger. Moreover …
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Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates tend to be biased in the same direction as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) in finite samples if the instruments are weak. To address this problem we propose a new IV estimator which we call Split Sample Instrumental Variables (SSIV). SSIV works as follows: we...
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opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low …
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We evaluate the long-term effect of a “girl-friendly” primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression … non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start … school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed …
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Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do so both nonparametrically and parametrically, while controlling for potential endogeneity and allowing for quantile effects. We then embed our estimates for this relationship...
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A central argument for school choice is that families value the freedom to exercise choice and can make wise decisions …. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations, which exploit over-subscription due to excess demand … to these results. We evaluate the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a school voucher plan providing public funds for …
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To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …
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This paper uses computable general equilibrium simulations to investigate the effect of private school vouchers. It … explicit political process at the school district level; (ii) embedding the private/public school choice in a Tiebout model in … which agents also choose between communities that provide different public school/property tax packages; and (iii) allowing …
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …
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and Hispanics are less likely to use computers at school and at work. The implications of these differences in school …
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