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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Test Scores and Self-Selection of Higher Education : College Attendance versus College Completion

Venti, Steven F. - 1981

As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …

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Late Bloomers : The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life

Bárány, Zsófia L.; Buchinsky, Moshe; Corblet, Pauline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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The Returns to College Major Choice : Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability

Andrews, Rodney J.; Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …

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The returns to college(s): relative value-added and match effects in higher education

Mountjoy, Jack; Hickman, Brent R. - 2021

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

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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The Returns to College(s) : Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education

Mountjoy, Jack; Hickman, Brent R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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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How Does For-profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?

Armona, Luis - 2018

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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Teachers’ Pay for Performance in the Long-Run : Effects on Students’ Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in Adulthood

Lavy, Victor - 2015

adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …

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Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?

Lindo, Jason M. - 2011

We consider the relationship between collegiate-football success and non-athlete student performance. We find that the team's success significantly reduces male grades relative to female grades. This phenomenon is only present in fall quarters, which coincides with the football season. Using...

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