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. Another (incentives) was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A third … offered both services and incentives than for those offered services alone. No program had an effect on men's grades or other … that incentives were given in the first year only. The results suggest that the study skills acquired in response to a …
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Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low-quality programs. Accordingly, improving the quality of child care is increasingly an explicit goal of government policy. However, accomplishing this goal requires a thorough...
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Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we find that TFA teachers neither help...
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education incentives by incentivising inputs rather than output, by focusing on high stakes outcomes, and by comparing financial … incentives, and identify a "right tail" of underperforming students who experience a significant impact on high stakes …
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incentives to high school seniors in an experimental demonstration program. As a theoretical matter, such incentives may be … outcomes in an effort to determine how students responded to incentives. These results show students took more tests and were …
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A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new light on this discussion by analyzing the health...
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A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new light on this discussion by analyzing the health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657744
A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new light on this discussion by analyzing the health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663397
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those who did not receive laptops and ii) those who only received...
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This paper estimates ability peer effects on achievement growth in reading and math. It exploits variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition from primary to secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth-graders. As will be discussed in detail, this variation is exogenous in...
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