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The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School
Angrist, Joshua D. - 1996
be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … mothers are much more likely to repeat one or more grades than other children, and within-household estimates of this … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest …
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Impact Evaluation in Matching Markets with General Tie-Breaking
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2017
Many centralized matching schemes incorporate a mix of random lottery and non-lottery tie-breaking. A leading example is the New York City public school district, which uses criteria like test scores and interviews to generate applicant rankings for some schools, combined with lottery...
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Maimonides Rule Redux
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017
We use the discontinuous function of enrollment known as Maimonides Rule as an instrument for class size in large Israeli samples from 2002-2011. As in the 1991 data analyzed by Angrist and Lavy (1999), Maimonides Rule still has a strong first stage. In contrast with the earlier Israeli...
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