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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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Competitive Effects of Charter Schools
Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We...
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School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality
Gilraine, Michael; Petronijevic, Uros; Singleton, John D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper develops and estimates an empirical framework that evaluates the impact of charter school choice on education quality in the aggregate. We estimate the model using student-level data from North Carolina. We find that North Carolina's lifting of its statewide charter school cap raised...
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Education and Later-life Mortality : Evidence from a School Reform in Japan
Masuda, Kazuya; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … likely came from disadvantaged families who could have benefited the most from schooling. Even in this relatively favorable … increased years of schooling. This finding suggests limited health returns to schooling at the lower level of educational …
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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
Federal incentives and requirements under the Obama administration spurred states to adopt major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale by exploiting the staggered timing of implementation...
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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools
Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium
Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
document three striking features of the schooling environment. First, there is substantial within-village variation in quality …; compounded over 5 years of primary schooling, this difference is similar in size to the test score gap between low- and high …
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The Unintended Consequences of Test-Based Remediation
Figlio, David N.; Özek, Umut - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school students who score below a proficiency cutoff into...
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Changing the Odds : Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Bachofer, Karen Volz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...
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Waivers for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program : Who Would Benefit from Takeup?
Briones, Diego A.; Ruby, Nathaniel; Turner, Sarah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
For workers employed in the public and non-profit sectors, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program offers the potential for full forgiveness of federal student loans for those with 10-years of full-time work experience. In practice, the benefits of the PSLF program have been illusory...
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