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School districts historically approached conflict-resolution from a zero-sum perspective: suspend students seen as …, improved school climate, and find no evidence of increased classroom disruption. We estimate a 19% decrease in arrests …, including for violent offenses, with reduced arrests outside of school, providing evidence that RP substantively changed …
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School authorities, universities, and employers often schedule multiple tests on the same day or week, causing … school. I leverage the empirical setting on two natural experiments to estimate the causal effect of this multitasking …
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While investments in schooling generate large private and external returns, negative peer interactions in school may … school calendars -- including unique, large, localized changes to in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic -- we …
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partnership with the Ministry of Education in Mozambique, we developed an intervention to increase the capacity of key school … girls only, boys only, or both. Our findings indicate a reduction in sexual violence by teachers and school staff against … girls, regardless of the targeted gender group, providing evidence of the role of improving the capacity of key school …
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We study the relationship between school characteristics and housing prices in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina … between 1994 and 2001. During this period, the school district was operating under a court-imposed desegregation order and … redrew a number of school boundaries. We use two different sources of variation to disentangle the effect of schools and …
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that, after an initial start-up period, average school quality in the charter sector is not significantly different from … that in regular public schools. Perhaps most important, the parental decision to exit a charter school is much more … sensitive to education quality than the decision to exit a regular public school, consistent with the notion that the …
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against the evidence, each innuendo proves to be false. One of the major points of Rothstein (2003) is that lagged school … districts are a valid instrumental variable for today's school districts. This is not credible. Another major claim of Rothstein … of Rothstein (2004) is that the results of Hoxby (2000) are not robust to including private school students in the sample …
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local school districts within a metropolitan area and average test scores. She argues that choice is endogenous to school … scores, which she interprets as evidence that school choice induces greater school productivity. This paper revisits Hoxby …
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from the school district administrative records of a subset of the school districts in Florida during the four years …
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …
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