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We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child's outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children...
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Mastery learning - the process by which students must demonstrate proficiency with a single topic before moving on - is well recognized as one of the most effective ways to learn, yet many teachers struggle or remain unsure about how to implement it into a classroom setting. This study evaluates...
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This paper examines the scalability of the results from the Tennessee Student-Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) Project, a prominent educational experiment. We explore how the misalignment between the experimental design and the econometric model affects researchers' ability to learn about the...
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period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among … workers' level of education and a large set of organizational practices aggregated into three domains: decentralization … education: no post-compulsory education, upper-secondary vocational education and train- ing, tertiary vocational education, and …
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This paper aims to show the evolution of the role and importance of education in economic theory, especially in … of the role and importance of education in the development process. Presentation of the classification theory refers to … theories of interdependence of education and development (theory of human capital, human development and approach to the …
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differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with … college and post-graduate education, in particular among recent birth cohorts, have not yet been addressed in the literature … college and post-graduate education for birth cohorts 1931-1980. Our findings show a significant postponement of the first …
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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