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high school drop-out of teenage girls, both to improve on past research on this issue and to explore compositional changes … %. It also appears to have decreased the probability of high school enrollment on the same order of magnitude. These results …
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We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...
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City's high school match to estimate the effects of attendance at a new small high school on student achievement. More than … traditional public school teachers, principals, and collectively-bargained work rules. Lottery estimates show positive score gains … in Mathematics, English, Science, and History, more credit accumulation, and higher graduation rates. Small school …
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Understanding how returns to higher education vary across degree programs is critical for effective higher education policy. Yet there is little evidence as to whether all degrees improve labor market outcomes, and whether they do so for students from different types of backgrounds. We combine...
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coverage for low-income children increases the rate of high school completion and college completion. These estimates are …
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This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there is no equity-efficiency tradeoff.
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attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the National …
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Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children's schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study, which granted randomly-chosen preschool-aged children...
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. This paper estimates the impact of charter school attendance on student achievement using data from Boston, where charter …. These schools have some of the independence of charter schools, but operate within the school district, face little risk of … student assignment lotteries show large and significant test score gains for charter lottery winners in middle and high school …
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We review the experimental and quasi-experimental research evidence on the causal relationship between college costs and educational attainment, with a particular focus on low-income populations. The weight of the evidence indicates that reducing college costs can increase college entry and...
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