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programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PAs) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that 1) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet with their assigned PA when the PA was also male and 2) these …
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programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …
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We examine how disadvantaged students make postsecondary education decisions, focusing on why they often opt for short … disadvantaged Black youth in Baltimore. We use these data to develop and explore a complementary narrative: students who have faced …
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secondary and post-secondary students' time use using time diaries from the American Time Use Survey. We apply a difference …. We find that on average, part-time college students in MML states spend 42 fewer minutes on homework, 37 fewer minutes … of MMLs on secondary or full-time college students. These results provide evidence on the mechanisms through which …
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Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside of teachers' control. Teachers often feel strongly that value-added models should account for student attendance, and many districts'...
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theory at the micro (student) level. Specifically, since parents have at least some agency over primary school students … student absenteeism. Similarly, student suspensions reflect students' relationships with their teacher, students' comfort … strategy to identify the impact of student-teacher demographic mismatch on primary school students' absences and suspensions …
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to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students … both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina …
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previously-estimated average effects to predict benefits. Moreover, it suggests that interventions that target all students would …
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