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Family Background and Optimal Schooling Decision

Lazear, Edward P. - 1980

In this paper, another aspect of optimizing behavior is considered. Specifically, it asks whether variations in levels of attained schooling across groups can be explained by a model that assumes that capital markets are perfect and that individuals maximize wealth. The logic of the analysis...

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Family Networks and School Enrolment : Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment

Angelucci, Manuela - 2009

extended family. Using household panel data from the Progresa program in rural Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal … intra generational family links of each household to others in the same village. We then exploit the randomized research … enrolment vary according to the presence and characteristics of extended family. We find that Progresa only raises secondary …

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The Impact of Public School Choice : Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice

Campos, Christopher; Kearns, Caitlin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that created small high school...

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The Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance : Overweight Adolescents and Children in Rural China

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2019

Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or constrained by resource deprivation, overweight status is predominantly found in poor, less-educated populations. This paper seeks to identify the causal role of schooling in...

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Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Mechanisms

Kapor, Adam - 2018

This paper studies how welfare outcomes in centralized school choice depend on the assignment mechanism when participants are not fully informed. Using a survey of school choice participants in a strategic setting, we show that beliefs about admissions chances differ from rational expectations...

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Inattention and Inequity in School Matching

Bucher, Stefan F.; Caplin, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The attractive properties of the Deferred Acceptance (DA) algorithm rest on the assumption of perfect information. Yet field studies of school matching show that information is imperfect, particularly for disadvantaged students. We model costly strategic learning when schools are ex ante...

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Preferences, Information, and Parental Choice Behavior in Public School Choice

Hastings, Justine S. - 2007

among low-income families, but dampens the effect among higher-income families. Using within-family changes in choice …

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The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes : Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2003

School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts seeking to enhance academic achievement. Evaluating the impact of such programs is complicated by the fact that a highly select sample of students takes advantage of these programs. To overcome this...

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Does School Choice Increase School Quality?

Holmes, George M. - 2003

Federal No Child Left Behind' legislation, which enables students of low-performing schools to exercise public school choice, exemplies a widespread belief that competing for students will spur public schools to higher achievement. We investigate how the introduction of school choice in North...

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Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major

Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2011

Due primarily to the difficulty of obtaining ideal data, much remains unknown about how college majors are determined. We take advantage of longitudinal expectations data from the Berea Panel Study to provide new evidence about this issue, paying particular attention to the choice of whether to...

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