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Algan, Yann - 2011

working on projects together) are strongly related to various dimensions of social capital, from beliefs in cooperation to … cooperation both with each other and with teachers, and students' involvement in civic life. A two-stage least square strategy …

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Marginal Returns to Public Universities

Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...

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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement

Hoffmann, Florian - 2006

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the...

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Culture Clash : Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict

Fouka, Vasiliki; Schläpfer, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one … cooperation within a group, we show theoretically that interactions of individuals from a punishment-based culture with those from … a culture of image scoring can lead to widespread inter-group tensions. Mutual cooperation is a more likely outcome if …

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Legal Activism, State Policy, and Racial Inequality in Teacher Salaries and Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century American South

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the late 1930s, the NAACP launched a campaign to equalize Black and white teacher salaries in the de jure segregated schools of the American South. Using newly collected county panel data spanning three decades, this paper first documents heterogeneous within-state impacts of the campaign on...

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Measuring Returns to Experience Using Supervisor Ratings of Observed Performance : The Case of Classroom Teachers

Bell, Courtney A.; James, Jessalynn K.; Taylor, Eric S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in observation ratings over time as the causal effect of experience on performance. We compare two difference-in-differences...

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Teaching Teachers To Use Computer Assisted Learning Effectively : Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Oreopoulos, Philip; Gibbs, Chloe; Jensen, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Mastery learning - the process by which students must demonstrate proficiency with a single topic before moving on - is well recognized as one of the most effective ways to learn, yet many teachers struggle or remain unsure about how to implement it into a classroom setting. This study evaluates...

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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 expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and...

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Investing in Infants : The Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families

Barr, Andrew C.; Eggleston, Jonathan; Smith, Alexander A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child's outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children...

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College Consumption Amenities, Academic Performance, and Donation Behavior

Hyman, Joshua; McFarlin, Isaac - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Colleges compete to attract students by investing in amenities such as athletics, dormitories, and student activities. We examine the effect of student consumption of postsecondary amenities on academic achievement and future donation behavior in the context of Big-Time college sports. We...

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