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Peer effects in disadvantaged primary schools : evidence from a randomized experiment

Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - 2013

We examine the effect of peer achievement on students' own achievement and teacher performance in primary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods using data from a well-executed randomized experiment in seven states. Contrary to the existing literature, we find that the average classroom peer...

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The effect of teach for America on the distribution of student achievement in primary school: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - 2013

Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we find that TFA teachers neither help...

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Peer Effects in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - 2013

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The disability system and programs to promote employment for people with disabilities

Wittenburg, David; Mann, David R.; Thompkins, Allison - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

This paper examines employment-focused interventions within the US disability system. Our review illustrates the challenges of developing and implementing these types of initiatives, despite substantial policy interest. Our findings indicate that none of the demonstrations we reviewed have the...

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Institutional Determinants of Student Achievement - Microeconometric Evidence

Link, Susanne - 2013

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...

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Allocating via Priorities

Alcalde, Jose; Silva-Reus, José Ángel - Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Teoría … - 2013

on random assignment (Bogomolnaia and Moulin, 2001) and the traditional analysis of matching mechanisms (Gale and Shapley …

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Random Housing with Existing Tenants

Alcalde, Jose - Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Teoría … - 2013

We explore the problem of distributing a group of indivisible objects, some of which incorporate a primitive assignment of use, or tenancy right. Within this framework we analyze the existence of rules always selecting an ex-ante efﬁcient allocation, conditioned to a preservation of the...

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Early Interventions to Prevent Disability for Workers with Mental Health Conditions: Impacts from the DMIE.

Gimm, Gilbert; Hoffman, Denise; Ireys, Henry T. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

This rigorous study found that early intervention programs with a personal navigator can reduce dependence on federal disability benefits for adult workers with mental health conditions.

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Modelling Household Spending Using a Random Assignment Scheme

Lawson, Tony - In: International Journal of Microsimulation 6 (2013) 2, pp. 56-75

needed to estimate the parameters for the equations. This paper examines the use of what are known as random assignment … brief review of econometric modelling. It then introduces the principles of random assignment schemes. These are expanded …. The model is then used as a platform to show how the random assignment scheme can be used to model a large number of goods …

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Peer Effects in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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