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private school increases with both income and ability, and, among private schools, the propensity to attend the highest …-tuition school rises with both income and ability. Within private schools, tuition declines with student ability, with a substantial … stronger predictors of private school attendance as public school expenditure falls. Income becomes increasingly important in …
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This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … with varying school quality. A key insight of the model is that changes in school quality may affect the characteristics of … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A …
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This paper provides the first evidence that value-added education accountability schemes induce dynamic distortions. Extending earlier dynamic moral hazard models, I propose a new test for ratchet effects, showing that classroom inputs are distorted less when schools face a shorter horizon over...
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political economy implications of trade theory hypothesis using data on democracy, factor endowments, and protection in the late …
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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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is one of the largest school construction programs on record. I evaluate the effect of this program on education and … education and earnings. Children ages 2 to 6 in 1974 received 0.12 to 0.19 more years of education for each school constructed …
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a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs" and school resources are closely related to school … income and education of parents, have strong effects on student performance. The findings also" indicate that more school … resources - especially smaller class sizes but probably also higher" teacher salaries and greater school length - enhance …
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In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and … of their estimates, they argue that compulsory school attendance laws alone account for the association between quarter … strong to be fully explained by compulsory school attendance laws in the samples studied by Angrist and Krueger. Moreover …
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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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We develop a unified empirical framework for child development which nests the key features of two previously parallel research programs, the Child Development literature and the Education Production Function literature. Our framework allows for mis-measured cognitive and non-cognitive skills,...
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