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Financial incentives for adoption and kin guardianship improve achievement for foster children
Simon, David; Sojourner, Aaron; Pedersen, Jon; Skallet, … - 2024
Difference-in-differences analysis of linked administrative data estimates effects of a Minnesota policy change that increased the payments to adoptive parents and kin guardians for children ages 6 and older, making them equal to what foster care payments were, but didn't for younger children....
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Financial incentives for adoption and kin guardianship improve achievement for foster children
Simon, David; Sojourner, Aaron; Pedersen, Jon; Skallet, … - 2024
Difference-in-differences analysis of linked administrative data estimates effects of a Minnesota policy change that increased the payments to adoptive parents and kin guardians for children ages 6 and older, making them equal to what foster care payments were, but didn't for younger children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550357
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A closer look: proximity boosts homeless student performance in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257997
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Human capital : challenges for Russia
Mau, Vladimir Aleksandrovič - 2013
qualitative leap in the development of education, healthcare and the pension system. We need fundamental changes in these sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398286
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The Great Migration and educational opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022
estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013278874
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The causal effect of political power on the provision of public education : evidence from a weighted voting system
Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Tyrefors, Björn - 2020 - This version: May 29, 2021
power from landowners to industrialists at local town meetings, affected investments in local public education. We use an … also economically substantial. For example, per capita spending on education increased by approximately 37% within 6 years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161499
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the … background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793439
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Discipline reform, school culture, and student achievement
Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2023
Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540504
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The Great Migration and educational opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023
estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229408
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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022
rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …
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