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better than third generation immigrants. Among first generation immigrants, the earlier the arrival, the better the students … tend to perform. These patterns of findings hold for both Asian and Hispanic students, and suggest a general pattern of …
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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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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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Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …
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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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university students, matched with underprivileged middle school students. We leverage random assignment to estimate effects … smaller effects. TOP enhanced students' aspirations, socio-emotional skills and psychological well-being, but only during …
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This paper synthesizes economic insights from theoretical models of schooling choice based on individual benefits and econometric work interpreting instrumental variables estimates as weighted averages of individual-specific causal effects. Linkages are illustrated using college proximity to...
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widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …
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This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of school resources on students' eventual earnings and … black and white students in North and South Carolina that existed in the first half of the 20th century, and the subsequent …
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affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …
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