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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools
Machin, Stephen J.; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - 2021
. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317192
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The Two-Legged Stool : The Neglected Role of Educational Standards in Improving America's Public Schools
Betts, Julian R. - 2007
The author notes that raising the school-leaving age and increasing the amount of spending per pupil have been … extremely important public school reforms. However, he says, sizable improvements in school quality will only be evident when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223216
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The Two-Legged Stool : The Neglected Role of Educational Standards in Improving America's Public Schools
Betts, Julian R. - 1998
Two of the most important reforms to American public schooling this century have been an increase in the minimum school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055242
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Why is the timing of school tracking so heterogeneous?
Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2005
Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of tracking time with a simple stochastic model which conjugates the returns from specialization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287674
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Academic achievement and tracking : a theory based on grading standards
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2019
knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … neither synergy effects nor interdependent preferences among classmates. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105595
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Does unrestricted public school choice increase racial segregation? : evidence from a natural experiment in New Orleans
Enami, Ali - In: Applied economics quarterly 63 (2017) 3, pp. 275-294
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890422
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Academic achievement and tracking : a theory based on grading standards
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - In: Education economics 28 (2020) 6, pp. 587-600
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313980
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Competitive Effects of Charter Schools
Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative … remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We consistently find that competition stemming from the opening of new charter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486212
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Inputs, incentives, and complementarities in education : experimental evidence from Tanzania
Mbiti, Isaac M.; Muralidharan, Karthik; Romero, Mauricio; … - In: The quarterly journal of economics 134 (2019) 3, pp. 1627-1673
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120298
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Inputs, incentives, and complementarities in education : experimental evidence from Tanzania
Mbiti, Isaac M.; Muralidharan, Karthik; Romero, Mauricio; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897149