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Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship
Lochner, Lance - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804659
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Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York City
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Hu, Weiwei; Pathak, Parag A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the most wide-ranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools with roughly 100 students per grade. We use assignment lotteries embedded in New York City's high school match to estimate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969286
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
Chetty, Raj; Friedman, John N.; Rockoff, Jonah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Are teachersʼ impacts on studentsʼ test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value-added (VA) measures provide unbiased estimates of teachersʼ causal impacts on student achievement. We test for bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969316
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The Aggregate Effect of School Choice: Evidence from a Two-stage Experiment in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two-stage lottery-based allocation of vouchers that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969360
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Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education
Duflo, Esther; Benhassine, Najy; Devoto, Florencia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950637
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Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start
Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson; Domina, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the distributional effects of Head Start, using the first national randomized experiment of the Head Start program (the Head Start Impact Study). We examine program effects on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes and explore the...
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Are Some Degrees Worth More than Others? Evidence from college admission cutoffs in Chile
Hastings, Justine S.; Neilson, Christopher A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
degrees and degrees in health, science, and social science fields. Returns to selectivity do not vary by student socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950920
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The Effect of School Finance Reforms on the Distribution of Spending, Academic Achievement, and Adult Outcomes
Jackson, C. Kirabo; Johnson, Rucker; Persico, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The school finance reforms (SFRs) that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused some of the most dramatic changes in the structure of K-12 education spending in U.S. history. We analyze the effects of these reforms on the level and distribution of school district spending, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951081
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When Educators Are the Learners: Private Contracting by Public Schools
Gordon, Nora E.; Forbes, Silke J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We investigate decision-making and the potential for social learning among school administrators in the market for school reform consulting services. Specifically, we estimate whether public schools are more likely to choose given Comprehensive School Reform service providers if their "peer"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951092
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The Effect of Child Health Insurance Access on Schooling: Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions
Cohodes, Sarah; Grossman, Daniel; Kleiner, Samuel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Public health insurance programs comprise a large share of federal and state government expenditures. Although a … sizable literature analyzes the effects of these programs on health care utilization and health outcomes, little prior work … has examined the long-term effects and resultant health improvements on important outcomes, such as educational attainment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951098