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' enrollment decisions are unrelated to whether or not the school tracks. When we take school choice into account, we find evidence …
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interpretation of the results. We start by considering the estimation of the returns to education both within the context of a … of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in income for prime age men. This finding is robust to...
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early, and schooling merely widens them. Additional university tuition subsidies or improvements in school quality are not …
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and school-by-grade fixed effects in addition to observable family and school characteristics. The analysis also addresses …. Moreover, students throughout the school test score distribution appear to benefit from higher achieving schoolmates. On the …
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Although schools across the country are investing heavily in computers in the classroom, there is surprisingly little evidence that they actually improve student achievement. In this paper we present results from a randomized study of a well-defined use of computers in schools: a popular...
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Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools … integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of Education are very broad, here we focus more narrowly on how school … Texas students, disentangles racial composition effects from other aspects of school quality and from differences in student …
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feedback effect black school enrollment increased in states that had previously experienced high rates of black out …
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Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is … the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has … takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch …
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Over the past 15 years, labor-quality growth has been very strong--defying nearly all earlier projections--and has added around 0.5 percentage points to an otherwise modest U.S. productivity picture. Going forward, labor quality is likely to add considerably less and may even be a drag on...
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