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A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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It is generally agreed upon that most individuals who acquire a college degree do so in their early 20s. Despite this consensus, we show that in the US from the 1930 birth cohort onwards a large fraction - around 20% - of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30. We explore the...
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to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …
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Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of … outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances …
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We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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Most students who begin at a community college leave without earning a degree. Given the growing emphasis on student … former students. However, there is a lack of causal evidence on their effectiveness. We implement a text message-based re …-enrollment campaign in partnership with several Florida community colleges. Former students who were previously successful academically …
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …
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I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …
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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 …
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