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Angrist, Joshua; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

accounted for by over-subscribed urban schools' embrace of the No Excuses approach to education. …

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Compulsory Education and the Benefits of Schooling

Melvin Stephens Jr.; Yang, Dou-Yan - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 6, pp. 1777-92

Causal estimates of the benefits of increased schooling using U.S. state schooling laws as instruments typically rely on specifications which assume common trends across states in the factors affecting different birth cohorts. Differential changes across states during this period, such as...

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Investing in Preschool Programs

Duncan, Greg J.; Magnuson, Katherine - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 27 (2013) 2, pp. 109-32

We summarize the available evidence on the extent to which expenditures on early childhood education programs … education programs, and then summarize results from a substantial body of methodologically sound evaluations of the impacts of … early childhood education. The evidence supports few unqualified conclusions. Many early childhood education programs appear …

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The Impact of Year-Round Schooling on Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mandatory School Calendar Conversions

McMullen, Steven C.; Rouse, Kathryn E. - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4 (2012) 4, pp. 230-52

In 2007, 22 Wake County, North Carolina traditional calendar schools were switched to year-round calendars, spreading the 180 instructional days evenly across the year. This paper presents a human capital model to illustrate the conditions under which these calendars might affect achievement. We...

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How Do Teachers Improve? The Relative Importance of Specific and General Human Capital

Ost, Ben - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6 (2014) 2, pp. 127-51

One of the most consistent findings in the literature on teacher quality is that teachers improve with experience … teacher improvement and that recent specific experience is more valuable than distant specific experience. This paper also …

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Delayed Graduation and University Dropout : A Review of Theoretical Approaches

Aina, Carmen - 2019

when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills … of individuals who do not succeed to gain a higher level of education. The job search approach underlines the role of …

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Does Ethnic Diversity in Schools Affect Occupational Choices?

Pregaldini, Damiano; Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect occupational choice. Using longitudinal administrative data and leveraging variation in ethnic composition across cohorts within schools, we find evidence for two opposing...

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Do 3rd Grade Math Scores Determine Students’ Futures? A Statewide Analysis of College Readiness and the Income Achievement Gap

Cratty, Dorothyjean - 2014

This study explores the relationship between large, early income-achievement gaps and subsequent low rates of college readiness in mathematics among low-income high school students. Within-school course taking patterns in math are examined for the same students from 3rd through 12th grade,...

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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments

Fryer, R.G. - 2017

Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...

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Do Teachers' College Majors Affect Students' Academic Achievement in the Sciences? A Cross-Subfields Analysis with Student-Teacher Fixed Effects

Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryuichi - 2022

-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we …

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