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In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high … school student survivors as adults in their twenties and early thirties. Our data on school shooting events is from a recent …, comprehensive database of school shootings compiled by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The analytic dataset contains …
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remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was …
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Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers, however, argue that contemporaneous test scores are a poor proxy for their permanent influence on students. This paper considers a new VA measure -- 'long-run VA' -- that captures...
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We evaluate the long-term effect of a "girl-friendly" primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression … non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start … school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed …
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of school discipline on student achievement, educational attainment and adult criminal activity. Using exogenous … variation in school assignment caused by a large and sudden boundary change and a supplementary design based on principal … school that has a one standard deviation higher suspension rate are 15 to 20 percent more likely to be arrested and …
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. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job …
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school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … attendance rates two school years later from .56 to .60. These attendance gains were driven primarily by outcomes in treatment …
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PISA is seen as the gold standard for evaluating educational outcomes worldwide. Yet, being a low-stakes exam, students may not take it seriously resulting in downward biased scores and inaccurate rankings. This paper provides a method to identify and account for non-serious behavior in...
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By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on cognitive and educational outcomes in that country. To do so, we apply...
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Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … behavior in school. The grants did not impact parent or student behaviors. Notably, we do not find impacts of either …
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