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The Effect of Single-Sex Education on Test Scores, School Completion, Arrests, and Teen Motherhood : Evidence from School Transitions

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2016

In 2010, the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago converted 20 low-performing secondary schools from coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of single-sex schooling holding other school inputs constant. After also accounting for student...

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Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity : Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending

Johnson, Rucker C. - 2017

estimates indicate that, for poor children, increases in Head Start spending and increases in public K12 spending each … increases in K12 spending were more efficacious for poor children who were exposed to higher levels of Head Start spending … during their preschool years. The findings suggest that early investments in the skills of disadvantaged children that are …

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What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score Outcomes

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2016

This paper extends the traditional test-score value-added model of teacher quality to allow for the possibility that teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both students' cognitive and noncognitive skill. Results show that teachers have effects on skills not...

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