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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers

Muralidharan, Karthik; Sheth, Ketki - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in learning outcomes, and the effectiveness of female...

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Does Gifted Education Work? For Which Students?

Card, David E.; Giuliano, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

allocated on the basis of cognitive ability, or a broader combination of ability and achievement? Should there be a single … miss the IQ thresholds but scored highest among their school/grade cohort in state-wide achievement tests in the previous … math achievement at the end of fourth grade. In contrast, estimates based on test score ranks for the third group show …

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Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model

Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We estimate a dynamic learning model of the college dropout decision, taking advantage of unique expectations data to greatly reduce our reliance on assumptions that would otherwise be necessary for identification. We find that forty-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two...

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The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice

Dur, Umut M.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Pathak, Parag A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

School choice plans in many cities grant students higher priority for some (but not all) seats at their neighborhood schools. This paper demonstrates how the precedence order, i.e. the order in which different types of seats are filled by applicants, has quantitative effects on distributional...

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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

City's high school match to estimate the effects of attendance at a new small high school on student achievement. More than … production and highlight the potential for within-district reform strategies to substantially improve student achievement. …

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Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

The large-scale expansion of primary schooling in developing countries has led to the increasing use of non-civil-service contract teachers who are hired locally by the school, are not professionally trained, have fixed-term renewable contracts, and are paid much lower salaries than regular...

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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...

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Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Postsecondary Degrees: Evidence from Chile

Reyes, Loreto; Rodríguez, Jorge; Urzúa, Sergio S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We analyze the economic returns to different postsecondary degrees in Chile. We posit a schooling decision model with unobserved ability, observed test scores and labor market outcomes. We benefit from administrative records to carry out our empirical strategy. Our results show positive average...

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Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement

Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

-scale teacher retirements on student achievement. We find the program did not reduce test scores; likely, it increased them, with …

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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...

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