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The Effect of Early Childhood Programs on Third-Grade Test Scores : Evidence from Transitional Kindergarten in Michigan
Berne, Jordan S.; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Musaddiq, Tareena; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is a relatively recent entrant into the U.S. early education landscape, combining features of public pre-K and regular kindergarten. We provide the first estimates of the impact of Michigan's TK program on 3rd grade test scores. Using an augmented regression...
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Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale : The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment
Bleiberg, Joshua; Brunner, Eric J.; Harbatkin, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-pecuniary costs of lower job satisfaction and security …
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Human Capital and Climate Change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...
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Why Choose Career Technical Education? Disentangling Student Preferences from Program Availability
Jacob, Brian Aaron; Ricks, Michael D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper presents the first evidence of how students make career technical education (CTE) course-taking decisions. Among the universe of Michigan high-schoolers we find large disparities in CTE access and participation by gender, race, and income. We decompose participation gaps between...
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Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
additional tuition costs thanks to offsetting grant aid; cost-benefit calculations show internal rates of return of 19-23 percent …
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The Provision of Information and Incentives in School Assignment Mechanisms
Neal, Derek A.; Root, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
information that participants bring to school assignment mechanisms and the quality of the schools in their choice sets …
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Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Self-Selection and Match Effects
Bruhn, Jesse M.; Campos, Christopher; Chyn, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the distributional effects of remote learning. Our approach combines newly collected data on parental preferences with administrative data from Los Angeles. The preference data allow us to account for selection into remote learning while also studying selection patterns and treatment...
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Assessing the Costs of Balancing College and Work Activities : The Gig Economy Meets Online Education
Aucejo, Esteban; Perry, A. Spencer; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Balancing the demands of work and schooling is a challenging task for an increasing number of students who have to pay their way through college and for workers who intend to upgrade their skills. However, flexible learning and working environments could play an important role in easing many...
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Pricing Neighborhoods
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores … for identifying parental valuation of measured school quality in the presence of strong neighborhood sorting. There is … into neighborhoods only slightly reduces our estimates. Given that school quality, as measured by monetary resources, is …
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Addressing Non-Financial Barriers to College Access and Success : Evidence and Policy Implications
Dynarski, Susan M.; Nurshatayeva, Aizat; Page, Lindsay C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Non-financial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic literature documents policy efforts to understand and address these barriers. We review this literature on non-financial...
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