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investments, reacting to school quality later in childhood. There is also evidence of cross-productivity between reading and math …
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apply to STEM programs. More specifically, we investigate how an increase in the relative acceptance probability for STEM … subsidized non-STEM programs. We find that this change in the selectivity of the admission system differently affected … discouraged the participation of women. After the reform, more men and women applied to STEM programs or non-subsidized non-STEM …
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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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gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school. …I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade … national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading …
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Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an … possibility that immigrant and native teachers may be assigned to different types of schools, and even within schools, to … different types of students, two estimation strategies are employed. The first estimates the immigrant teacher impact by …
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Language Arts (ELA) or math. Similarly, teacher aptitude and subject-matter knowledge, as measured on state licensure tests …, however, and the effects of a good ELA or math teacher spillover from one subject to the other …
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India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls’ attitude …We investigate the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on the learning outcomes of secondary school students in …
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, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more … qualified teachers by increasing their financial investments in their children. The key mechanism is an increase in parents …
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, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more … qualified teachers by increasing their financial investments in their children. The key mechanism is an increase in parents …
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important to understand how and under what conditions white teachers learn racial competency. This study applies a mixed …-methods approach to investigate the hypothesis that Black peers improve white teachers' effectiveness when teaching Black students. The … significantly improves the achievement and reduces the suspension rates of white teachers' Black students. These effects are …
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