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Changing the Odds : Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention

Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Bachofer, Karen Volz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...

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The Impact of Comprehensive Student Support on Crime : Evidence from the Pathways to Education Program

Lavecchia, Adam; Oreopoulos, Philip; Spencer, Noah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching, tutoring, group activities, free public transportation tickets … and bursaries for postsecondary education. In this paper, we use a difference-in-differences approach that compares …

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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …

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Birds of a Feather : Estimating the Value of Statistical Life from Dual-Earner Families

Aldy, Joseph E. - 2019

Economists have long employed hedonic wage analysis to estimate income-fatality risk trade-offs, but some scholars have raised concerns about systematic measurement error and omitted variable bias in the empirical applications of this model. Recent studies have employed panel methods to remove...

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Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander - 2018

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...

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The Life Expectancy of Older Couples And Surviving Spouses

Compton, Janice - 2018

and ethnicity and by education. We then calculate trends and patterns in joint and survivor life expectancy in each census …

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Understanding Joint Retirement

Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2018

Evidence from different sources shows that spouses' retirement decisions are correlated. Retirement policies affecting individuals in couples are therefore also likely to affect behavior of their spouses. It is therefore important to account for joint features in modeling retirement. This paper...

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Forsaking All Others? The Effects of "Gay Marriage" on Risky Sex

Dee, Thomas S. - 2005

a culture of responsibility and commitment among homosexuals. A specific implication of this claim is that "gay marriage …, which provides a framework for discussing the ways in which gay marriage might reduce (or increase) the prevalence of STI …. Then, I present reduced-form empirical evidence on whether gay marriage has actually reduced STI rates. These evaluations …

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Health Shocks and Couples' Labor Supply Decisions

Coile, Courtney C. - 2004

Unexpected health events such as a heart attack or new cancer diagnosis are very common for workers in their 50s and 60s. These health shocks can result in a significant loss in family income if the worker reduces labor supply, but the family can also protect itself against this loss if the...

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Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results

Wolfers, Justin - 2003

within marriage, with an eye to their partner's divorce threat …

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