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Sibling Spillovers May Enhance the Efficacy of Targeted School Policies
Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …
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Setting a Good Example? Examining Sibling Spillovers in Educational Achievement Using a Regression Discontinuity Design
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2019
Using a regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from an anonymous district in Florida, we identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. We find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child...
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David - 2016
secure better educational opportunities for their children. A larger fraction of immigrants speaking the same language in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456138
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...
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The Unintended Consequences of Test-Based Remediation
Figlio, David N.; Özek, Umut - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school students who score below a proficiency cutoff into...
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