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experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the …
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Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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We model charter school entry and choice of educational practices. Student achievement depends on cognitive ability, motivation, effort, and match of school curriculum to ability. Exercising charter school autonomy over curriculum, to maximize achievement gains, the charter sets curriculum to...
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In the three decades from 1910 to 1940, the fraction of U.S. youths enrolled in public and private secondary schools increased from 18 to 71 percent and the fraction graduating soared from 9 to 51 percent. At the same time, state compulsory education and child labor legislation became more...
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Using the quasi-random assignment of 760,000 children in U.S. military families, we show that neighborhood attributes … across ages groups. Importantly, the same locations benefit children with equal potency across race or sex. Twenty years of … Army's quasi-random assignment reduces Black-white earnings gaps among the children of Army personnel by 23% …
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in the US and Canada. In the US very low birthweight males face excess mortality compared to their female counterparts. I …, mothers in the US and Canada are more likely to experience depression post birth when the first born child is a boy. Perhaps … related, the parenting of first born boys in Canada in the first years of life is more likely to be confrontational …
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We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviours in 9th-grade) for students who are more versus less educationally advantaged (i.e., likely to attain more years...
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In this paper, we examine whether expanded access to sought-after schools can improve academic achievement. The setting we study is the "open enrollment" system in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). We use lottery data to avoid the critical issue of non-random selection of students into schools....
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Education was to improve the quality of the schools black children attended. This paper uses a new dataset to examine the …
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Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline problems than those attending elementary school. That difference remains after adjusting for the socioeconomic and...
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