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The segregation of students by socioeconomic status has been on the rise in American public education between schools … during the past several decades. Recent work has demonstrated that segregation is also increasing within schools at the … segregation within schools. We assess whether growth in the presence and number of nearby charter schools have affected the …
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In 1975, a federal court ordered the desegregation of public schools in Jefferson County, KY. In order to approximately equalize the share of minorities across schools, students were assigned to a busing schedule that depended on the first letter of their last name. We use the resulting...
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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...
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Charter schools have been pushed as a way to reform education. This article is my experience in one charter school. The … structural freedom provided charter schools do not necessarily mean an improvement in education practices. Convention, tradition …, and banking education may persist. Authoritarian administrative practices may continue and impede true reform which occurs …
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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 disaggregated synthetic control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428967
To the extent that school assignments/choices are endogenous, it is hard to conduct good experimental research on single-sex schooling. Thus, there is little large-scale empirical evidence on the long-term effects of single-sex schools in many developed countries. I explore the causal effects of...
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identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159294
Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through … locational characteristics, we identify the causal effect of the policy through a novel identification strategy, which relies on …
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