Search Results - subject:"Random assignment"

The short-run impact of the healthy incentives pilot program on fruit and vegetable intake

Klerman, Jacob Alex; Bartlett, Susan; Wilde, Parke E.; … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 96 (2014) 5, pp. 1372-1382

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Random assignment as a method for evaluating public policy

Bouguen, Adrien; Seban, Juliette - In: Economie & prévision : EP 204/205 (2014) 1/2, pp. 119-143

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Social networks and vaccination decisions

Rao, Neel; Möbius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya - 2007

one's decision to get vaccinated against the flu. The random assignment of undergraduates to residential halls at a large …

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Sequential Pseudomarkets: Welfare Economics in Random Assignment Economies

Miralles, Antonio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

We study random assignment economies with expected-utility agents, each of them eventually obtaining a single object …

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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 - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 113-125

Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we examine the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we generally find that TFA teachers...

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Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools

Park, Hyunjoon; Behrman, Jere; Choi, Jaesung - In: Demography 50 (2013) 2, pp. 447-469

college entrance exam scores and college attendance. Our validation of the random assignment shows comparable socioeconomic … single-sex schools because of student selection of school types. We exploit a unique feature of schooling in Seoul—the random … assignment of students into single-sex versus coeducational high schools—to assess causal effects of single-sex schools on …

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Addressing Teacher Shortages in Disadvantaged Schools: Lessons from Two Institute of Education Sciences Studies.

Clark, Melissa; McConnell, Sheena; Constantine, Jill; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

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Monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations

Telle, Kjetil - In: Journal of Public Economics 99 (2013) C, pp. 24-34

Relying on a small natural field experiment conducted by the Norwegian Environmental Protection Agency, I estimate effects of three fundamental elements of most monitoring and enforcement practices: self-reporting, audit frequency and specific deterrence. I find evidence of under-reporting of...

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The Effectiveness of Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America and the Teaching Fellows Programs.

Clark, Melissa A.; Chiang, Hanley S.; Silva, Tim; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

The first large-scale, random assignment study of the effects of secondary school math teachers from Teach For America …

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The effectiveness of extended day programs: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in the Netherlands

Meyer, Erik; Van Klaveren, Chris - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 1-11

Policies that aim at improving student achievement frequently increase instructional time, for example by means of an extended day program. There is, however, hardly any evidence that these programs are effective, and the few studies that allow causal inference indicate that we should expect...

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