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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered implementation across Sweden. We first show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321147
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The distributional effects of direct college costs
Gemus, Jonathan - 2010
This paper examines the distributional impacts of direct college costs - that is, whether the response of educational … decisions to college costs varies by student characteristics. The primary obstacle in estimating these effects is the … endogeneity of schooling costs. To overcome this issue, I use two measures of direct costs that are plausibly exogenous: living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321404
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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered implementation across Sweden. We first show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282489
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Education impact study: The global recession and the capacity of colleges and universities to serve vulnerable populations in Asia
Postiglione, Gerard - 2010
This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global recession - an Asia far more economically integrated than during past economic shocks, with more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286147
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The human capital (schooling) of immigrants in America
Smith, James P. - 2012
This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290024
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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Motivation, Resources and the Organization of the School System
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535782
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Is Early Start a Better Start? Evaluating California State University's Early Start Remediation Policy
Kurlaender, Michal; Lusher, Lester; Case, Matthew - 2019
Remediation has long been a costly way to address the misalignment between K-12 and higher education. In 2011, the California State University (CSU), the nation's largest public four-year university system, enacted Early Start, requiring students needing remediation to enroll in such courses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141185
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Does Increased Teacher Accountability Decrease Leniency in Grading?
Puhani, Patrick A.; Yang, Philip - 2019
effect of introducing centralized scoring standards into schools with higher and lower quality peer groups. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141319
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Les résultats éducatifs de long terme des élèves de l'école secondaire privée au Québec : une évaluation des effets de traitement avec données longitudinales
Lapierre, David; Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - 2016
Peu d'études peuvent évaluer les effets de long terme de l'école privée secondaire sur les résultats éducatifs des élèves, tout en contrôlant pour les caractéristiques des élèves et des parents. Au Québec, la deuxième province canadienne la plus populeuse, plus de vingt pourcent...
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