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Does school integration generate peer effects? : Evidence from Boston's Metco program
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Kevin - 2004
-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261665
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Neighborhood Influence and Political Change: Evidence from US School Districts
Rincke, Johannes - 2005
This paper investigates how local jurisdictions in a federal system influence each other in the adoption of policy innovations. We look at school districts in Michigan and their participation in a public school choice program launched in 1996. Districts' participation decisions are modelled as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297425
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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003
This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274215
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What Next for School Vouchers?
Peterson, Paul E. - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 57-61
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High Grading Standards Improve Student Performance
Figlio, David N.; Lucas, E. Maurice - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 21-26
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696487
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School Choice and School Quality in the US
Nechyba, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 33-38
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696489
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Educational standards in private and public schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2005
We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools, as in Epple and Romano, 1998. An alternative configuration,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261149
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Report on the potential impacts of property tax abatement on rental housing construction in Boston
Alejandro, Patricia; Carter, Mary Ellen; DiPasquale, Denise - 2024
Boston's high housing costs reflect a historic failure to build enough units to satisfy demand. Interest rates and … construction, the City of Boston is considering various policy options. Our committee was asked by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to … recommend which policy, if any, the city should pursue; Boston officials are better positioned to assess whether the benefits of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480370
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How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Kevin - 2002
Metco, a long-running desegregation program that sends mostly black students out of the Boston public school district to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763248
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Weak links in the BEE chain? Procurement, skills and employment equity in the metals and engineering industries
Mohamed, Grace; Roberts, Simon - 2006
The racially-constituted workplaces of South Africa under apartheid have been identified as obstacles to better industrial performance since the mid-1990s. The Department of Trade and Industry’s 2003 strategy identifies ‘Black Economic Empowerment’ (BEE) as being broadbased, inclusive, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323369