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Are estimates of early education programs too pessimistic? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment that causally measures neighbor effects
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2019
We estimate the direct and spillover effects of a large-scale early childhood intervention on the educational attainment of over 2,000 disadvantaged children in the United States. We show that failing to account for spillover effects results in a severe underestimation of the impact. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038324
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The Causal Effects of an Intensified Curriculum on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
This paper exploits a unique universal educational policy - implemented in most German states between 2001 and 2008 - that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127598
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Does early child care help or hurt childrens's development?
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2014
More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417199
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Does early child care help or hurt children's development?
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2014
More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408830
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College expansion and the marginal returns to education : evidence from Russia
Belskaya, Olga; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Posso, Christian - 2014
This paper evaluates whether the expansion of higher education is economically worthwhile based on a recent surge in the number of campuses and college graduates in Russia. Our empirical strategy relies on the marginal treatment effect method in both normal and semi‐parametric versions, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462897
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Marginal returns to citizenship and educational performance
Gathmann, Christina; Vonnahme, Christina; Busse, Anna; … - 2021
Citizenship is the most important right a host country can bestow on its immigrant population. Yet, little is known which citizenship policies work and who actually benefits from them. To answer these questions, we estimate the marginal returns to citizenship on children’s school performance...
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The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes
Bald, Anthony; Chyn, Eric; Hastings, Justine S.; … - 2021
This paper measures impacts of removing children from families investigated for abuse or neglect. We use removal tendencies of child protection investigators as an instrument. We focus on young children investigated before age six and find that removal significantly increases test scores and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214128
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The effects of free secondary school track choice: a disaggregated synthetic control approach
Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021
We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to informational. Applying a disaggre-gated synthetic control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418439
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A closer look: proximity boosts homeless student performance in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change … attendance, 29 percent (10 pp) lower mobility, and 8 percent (1.6 pp) greater retention when placed locally. These results … proceed from novel administrative data on homeless families observed in the context of a scarcity-induced natural experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257997
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From proof of concept to scalable policies : challenges and solutions, with an application
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Banerji, Rukmini; Berry, James; … - 2016
The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us — possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts — to inform policy. However, critics have pointed out that a...
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