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The Covid-19 Pandemic Disrupted Both School Bullying and Cyberbullying

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Goodman, Joshua; Green, Jennifer; … - 2022

One-fifth of U.S. high school students report being bullied each year. We use internet search data for real … contain useful information about actual bullying behavior. We then show that searches for school bullying and cyberbullying …

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On the Validity of Season of Birth as an Instrument in Wage Equations : A Comment on Angrist & Krueger'S "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Scho

Bound, John; Jaeger, David A. - 2021

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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Split Sample Instrumental Variables

Angrist, Joshua D.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

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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Assessing School District Decision-Making : Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Christian, Alvin; Jacob, Brian A.; Singleton, John D. - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic drew new attention to the role of school boards in the U.S. In this paper, we examine school … the 2020-21 pandemic school year. The analysis takes advantage of granular weekly data on learning mode and COVID-19 cases … for Ohio school districts. We show that districts respond on the margin to health risks: all else equal, a marginal …

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Covid and the Economic Importance of In-Person K-12 Schooling

Green, David; Karimirad, Ali; Simard-Duplain, Gaelle; … - 2021

. Eliminating in-person schooling reduces the amount of labour time parents of school-aged children have available to work, and …

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Educational Vouchers and Cream Skimming

Epple, Dennis; Romano, Richard E. - 2021

that would inject private-school competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming. Conditioning …. However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap the benefits of school competition without …

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Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2009

The history of Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been long and controversial. Throughout its implementation during World Wars I and II, the oil embargo of the 1970s, consistent practice today, and recent extensions, the primary rationale for DST has always been to promote energy conservation....

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Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment : The Case of Household Energy Use

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2019

We use causal forests to evaluate the heterogeneous treatment effects (TEs) of repeated behavioral nudges towards household energy conservation. The average response is a monthly electricity reduction of 9 kilowatt-hours (kWh), but the full distribution of responses ranges from -30 to +10 kWh....

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The Distributional Effects of Building Energy Codes

Bruegge, Chris - 2018

State-level building energy codes have been around for over 40 years, but recent empirical research has cast doubt on their effectiveness. A potential virtue of standards-based policies is that they may be less regressive than explicit taxes on energy consumption. However, this conjecture has...

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How Effective is Energy-Efficient Housing? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico

Davis, Lucas W. - 2018

Despite growing enthusiasm, there is little empirical evidence on how well energy efficiency investments work. Evidence is particularly lacking from low- and middle-income countries, despite a widespread view that these countries have many of the best opportunities. This paper evaluates a field...

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