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Advancing Academic Opportunities for Disadvantaged Youth : Third Year Impact Evaluation of a Privately-Managed School in a Poor Neighborhood in Montevideo
Balsa, Ana I. - 2017
We study the three-year impact of a private tuition-free middle school on the academic outcomes of poor students. Several features of the treatment school fit with innovative paradigms that have delivered successful outcomes in poor urban areas. Our research design exploits the excess of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961839
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The social side of early human capital formation: using a field experiment to estimate the causal impact of neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2020
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389402
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Are estimates of early education programs too pessimistic? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment that causally measures neighbor effects
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161541
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Educating inequality : beyond the political myths of higher education and the job market
Samuels, Robert - 2018
The politics of higher education -- College and the myth of the good job -- Why higher education reduces social mobility -- The myth of the fair meritocracy -- How college changed childhood, education, and parenting in America -- Training undemocratic capitalists -- The death of the liberal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011706646
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Evaluating the impact of neighbourhood effects on house prices and land rents : an hedonic approach
Cheshire, Paul C.; Sheppard, Stephen - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000818850
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Evaluating the impact of neighbourhood effects on house prices and land rents : results from an extended model
Cheshire, Paul C.; Sheppard, Stephen - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000879573
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Measuring neighborhood change due to housing allowances : a final report of the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment
Hillestad, Carol E.; MacDowell, James L. - 1982
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000011939
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Neighborhood dynamics and the housing price effects of spatially targeted economic development policy
Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2009
Zone program) on neighborhood characteristics, especially housing values. This system of equations approach allows us to … in the housing stock or neighborhood demographics. In the process, we are able to shed light on the rich simultaneity … among neighborhood characteristics, including housing prices. -- Economic development ; simultaneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879342
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Comparing residential mobility programs : design elements, neighborhood placements, and outcomes in MTO and Gautreaux
Rosenbaum, James E.; Zuberi, Anita - In: Housing policy debate 20 (2010) 1, pp. 27-41
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961396
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A glass half empty? : new evidence from the HOPE VI panel study
Popkin, Susan J. - In: Housing policy debate 20 (2010) 1, pp. 43-63
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961398