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U.S. School Finance : Resources and Outcomes

Handel, Danielle V.; Hanushek, Eric Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The impact of school resources on student outcomes was first raised in the 1960s and has been controversial since then. This issue enters into the decision making on school finance in both legislatures and the courts. The historical research found little consistent or systematic relationship of...

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Lasting Scars : The Impact of Depression in Early Adulthood on Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Wang, Buyi; Frank, Richard G.; Glied, Sherry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

this income penalty (21-39%) occurs because depression is often a chronic condition, recurring later in life. But a …

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Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness

Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter; Walters, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test scores and other outcomes. Widely-disseminated school ratings frameworks compare average student achievement...

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Raising State Minimum Wages, Lowering Community College Enrollment

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Turner, Julia A.; Turner, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

institutional data on college enrollment and program completion, we find that enrollment falls markedly among students at public two …-year institutions in response to increases in the minimum wage. The largest enrollment effects are seen for those students who are … of students who are unlikely to have been diverted from degree attainment …

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Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Self-Selection and Match Effects

Bruhn, Jesse M.; Campos, Christopher; Chyn, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

parents have the strongest demand for remote learning. Our results suggest an important subset of students who currently sort … learning on reading (-0.14 SD) and math (-0.17 SD). Notably, we find evidence of positive learning effects for children whose …

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The Impact of Public School Choice : Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice

Campos, Christopher; Kearns, Caitlin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …

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School Accountability, Long-Run Criminal Activity, and Self-Sufficiency

Eren, Ozkan; Figlio, David N.; Mocan, Naci; Ozturk, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

ratings distribution, decreases adult criminal involvement. Accountability pressures also reduce the propensity of students …

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The Long-Term Distributional Impacts of a Full-Year Interleaving Math Program in Nigeria

Haar, Lotte van der; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Kremer, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study reports the findings from a year-long randomized evaluation assessing the impact of assigning 62 classrooms in Nigeria to receive either blocked or interleaved math problem sets. Blocked practice sessions focused on a single skill at a time. Interleaved problem sets alternated between...

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Late Bloomers : The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life

Bárány, Zsófia L.; Buchinsky, Moshe; Corblet, Pauline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

It is generally agreed upon that most individuals who acquire a college degree do so in their early 20s. Despite this consensus, we show that in the US from the 1930 birth cohort onwards a large fraction - around 20% - of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30. We explore the...

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Contexts of Convenience : Generalizing from Published Evaluations of School Finance Policies

Handel, Danielle V.; Hanushek, Eric Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Recent attention to the causal identification of spending impacts provides improved estimates of spending outcomes in a variety of circumstances, but the estimates are substantially different across studies. Half of the variation in estimated funding impact on test scores and over three-quarters...

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