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Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078623
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Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School
Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
In previous research, a substantial gap in test scores between White and Black students persists, even after controlling for a wide range of observable characteristics. Using a newly available data set (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), we demonstrate that in stark contrast to earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085351
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Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch
Krishna, Kala; Robles, Verónica C. Frisancho - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Affirmative action policies in higher education are used in many countries to try to socially advance historically … over the actual impact of such preferences in higher education on educational performance and labor outcomes. Most of the … higher education on minority students focusing on three central issues in the current debate: targeting, catch up, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401250
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Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials
Fryer, Roland - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
incentives tied to output are not effective. Relative to popular education reforms of the past few decades, student incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628349
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634700
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Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children
Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
On tests of intelligence, Blacks systematically score worse than Whites, whereas Asians frequently outperform Whites. Some have argued that genetic differences across races account for the gap. Using a newly available nationally representative data set that includes a test of mental function for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829528
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Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination
Fryer, Roland - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life - earnings, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the significance of discrimination as an explanation for racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490059
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From Brown to Busing
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Gordon, Nora E.; Lewis, Ethan G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049943
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
Cortes, Kalena; Goodman, Joshua; Nomi, Takako - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821883
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Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED
Fryer, Roland; Curto, Vilsa E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804676