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and 2010, in both the education literature and the economics literature, to investigate which specific school and teacher …
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government chooses income tax rates, per-student expenditure levels on public K-12 and college education, college tuition and the … and hence the quality of public education. More students would obtain college degrees due to increased enrollment. Over 86 …
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This paper analyzes the impact of voter-approved school bond issues on school district balance sheets, local housing prices, and student achievement. We draw on the unique characteristics of California's system of school finance to obtain clean identification of bonds' causal effects, comparing...
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efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected … aware of the existence of these committees and their potential for improving education. This paper evaluates three different … constraints in participating to improve the public education system, even when they care about education and are willing to do …
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route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the potential biases in estimating the effects of … taking the "GED path" to postsecondary education. Lacking suitable instruments that would allow us to directly address … 8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …
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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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have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education differs from other areas of public expenditure because …
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This paper uses a computational general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of public school finance regimes on rates of private school attendance. It is shown that, when viewed in such a general equilibrium context, state intervention in locally financed systems can have somewhat unexpected...
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such as standardized test scores, grade retention and special education placement. Comparing lottery winners and losers, we …
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Peer effects have figured prominently in debates on school vouchers, desegregation, ability tracking and anti-poverty programs. Compelling evidence of their existence remains scarce for plaguing endogeneity issues such as selection bias and the reflection problem. This paper firmly establishes a...
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