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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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Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target …
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Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014307094
Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309603
We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less...
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This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a...
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This paper examines teachers’ mobility in response to exogenous changes in the credentials of their students using data from Stockholm high schools. I explore a major admission reform that lead to the reshuffling of students between schools within the municipality of Stockholm. The results...
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Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students’ outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited...
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Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students' outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517817
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