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Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance
Lindert, Peter H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This essay proposes a set of non-econometric tests using data on wage structure, school resource costs, public expenditures, taxes, and rates of return to explain anomalies in which richer political units deliver less education than poorer ones. Both the anomalies of education history, and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635916
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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.
Hoxby, Caroline; Aghion, Philippe; Dewatripont, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and competition for research funding. We show that university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830645
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School Turnarounds: Evidence from the 2009 Stimulus
Dee, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) targeted substantial School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the nation's "persistently lowest achieving" public schools (i.e., up to $2 million per school annually over 3 years) but required schools accepting these awards to implement a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227906
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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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Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries
Cullen, Julie Berry; Jacob, Brian A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
issue of non-random selection of students into schools. Our analysis sample includes nearly 450 lotteries for kindergarten … and first grade slots at 32 popular schools in 2000 and 2001. We track students for up to five years and examine outcomes … explanations. Moreover, we separately examine effects for a variety of demographic subgroups, and for students whose application …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085180
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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement
Oreopoulos, Philip; Hoffmann, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050190
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The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement
Lochner, Lance; Belley, Philippe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper uses data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth cohorts (NLSY79 and NLSY97) to estimate changes in the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment for youth in their late teens during the early 1980s and early 2000s. Cognitive ability plays an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050214
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An Economic History of Fertility in the U.S.: 1826-1960
Jones, Larry E.; Tertilt, Michele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
In this paper, we use data from the US census to document the history of the relationship between fertility choice and key economic indicators at the individual level for women born between 1826 and 1960. We find that this data suggests several new facts that should be useful for researchers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828602
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The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis
Moriguchi, Chiaki - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This paper offers a comparative study of the evolution of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan, using a game-theoretic framework in which an employment system is viewed as an equilibrium outcome of the strategic interactions among management, labor, and government. The paper identifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828916
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The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
The labor force participation rate of married women first declines and then rises as countries develop. Its þ-shape is revealed both across the process of economic development and through the histories of currently advanced countries. The initial decline in the participation rate is due to the...
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