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Talented students compete fiercely for seats at Boston and New York exam schools. These schools are characterized by … students do very well in school, the question of whether an exam school education adds value relative to a regular public … most students' achievement. We use two-stage least squares to convert reduced form estimates of the effects of exam school …
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Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … cutoffs for the most selective of these schools move from above-average schools to schools with students drawn from the … extreme upper tail. Exam school students can also expect to study with fewer nonwhite classmates than unsuccessful applicants …
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Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … cutoffs for the most selective of these schools move from above-average schools to schools with students drawn from the … extreme upper tail. Exam school students can also expect to study with fewer nonwhite classmates than unsuccessful applicants …
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Talented students compete fiercely for seats at Boston and New York exam schools. These schools are characterized by … students do very well in school, the question of whether an exam school education adds value relative to a regular public … most students' achievement. We use two-stage least squares to convert reduced form estimates of the effects of exam school …
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School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …
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School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … attendance, and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these schools generate larger …
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