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When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards
Angrist, Joshua - 2010
We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462013
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How Large are the Social Returns to Education? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
Acemoglu, Daron - 1999
Average schooling in US states is highly correlated with state wage levels, even after controlling for the direct effect of schooling on individual wages. We use an instrumental variables strategy to determine whether this relationship is driven by social returns to education. The instrumentals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471339
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Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools : Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2009
schools enroll a growing share of students. We also evaluate an alternative to the charter model, Boston's pilot schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463100
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Lead Them to Water and Pay Them to Drink : An Experiment with Services and Incentives for College Achievement
Angrist, Joshua - 2006
year grades. A third treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465869