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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
spending for poor districts. While all reforms reduce spending inequality, there are important differences by reform type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951081
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Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: A Field Experiment in Houston
Fryer, Roland - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We implemented five strategies gleaned from practices in achievement-increasing charter schools - increased instructional time, a more rigorous approach to building human capital of teachers and administrators, high-dosage tutoring, frequent use of data to inform instruction, and a culture of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328109
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The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics
Dynarski, Susan; Scott-Clayton, Judith E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
The federal system for distributing student financial aid rivals the tax code in its complexity. Both have been a source of frustration and a focus of reform efforts for decades, yet the complexity of the student aid system has received comparatively little attention from economists. We describe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720440
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Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics
Lemieux, Thomas; Lee, David S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper provides an introduction and "user guide" to Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs for empirical researchers. It presents the basic theory behind the research design, details when RD is likely to be valid or invalid given economic incentives, explains why it is considered a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778441
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Urban Inequality
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Resseger, Matthew G.; Tobio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … poverty, but today, inequality is more strongly linked to the presence of the wealthy. Inequality in skills can explain about …What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778468
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Social Capital and Urban Growth
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Redlick, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Social capital is often place-specific while schooling is portable, so the prospect of migration may reduce the returns to social capital and increase the returns to schooling. If social capital matters for urban success, it is possible that an area can get caught in a bad equilibrium where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778721
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Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?
DiNardo, John Enrico; Bacolod, Marigee; Jacobson, Mireille - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
"Accountability mandates" -- the explicit linking of school funding, resources, and autonomy to student performance on standardized exams -- have proliferated in the last 10 years. In this paper, we examine California's accountability system, which for several years financially rewarded schools...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089119
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Measuring Top Incomes Using Tax Record Data: A Cautionary Tale from Australia
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hahn, Markus H.; Wilkins, Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income tax-based data to measure the share of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e.g. capital gains, dividends, etc.) disproportionately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796635
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"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health
Winter, Joachim; Stowasser, Till; Heiss, Florian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Much has been said about the stylized fact that the economically successful are not only wealthier but also healthier than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there remains a vivid debate about its source. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226774
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The Effects of an Incentive-Based High-School Intervention on College Outcomes
Jackson, C. Kirabo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all ethnicities attend college in greater numbers, have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008601674