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Financial Aid and Social Mobility : Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga

Londoño Vélez, Juliana; Rodríguez, Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

tuition coverage to students admitted to one of 33 government-certified high-quality universities known for superior test …. To qualify, students must score in the top 10% of the standardized high school exit exam and have below-median household … partly by high-quality universities improving students' skills, as demonstrated by their performance on Colombia's college …

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Managing to Learn

Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...

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The Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry-Level Earnings

Betts, Julian R. - 2000

Despite recent theoretical work and proposals from educational reformers, there is little empirical work on the effects of higher grading standards. In this paper we use data from the High School and Beyond survey to estimate the effects of grading standards on student achievement, educational...

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The Effects of Class Size and Composition on Student Achievement : New Evidence from Natural Population Variation

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 1998

reductions in class size from a base of 15 to 30 students have no effect on student achievement. The estimates are precise enough … the presence of black students in a class, in an of itself, has no effect on achievement. I demonstrate that estimates of …

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The Educational Attainment of Immigrants : Trends and Implications

Betts, Julian R. - 1998

This paper uses the 1970, 1980, and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study trends in educational attainment of immigrants relative to natives. Immigrants have become relatively less highly educated, but have become more highly educated in an absolute sense. The effects of changes in relative educational...

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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment : An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples

Angrist, Joshua D. - 1990

start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school … can be derived for one cohort of students, to the 1980 Census, which contains educational attainment for the same cohort … of students. The results suggest that roughly 10 percent of students were constrained to stay in school by compulsory …

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Physical Disabilities and Post-Secondary Educational Outcomes

Shakotko, Robert A. - 1980

This paper is an empirical investigation of the effect of poor early life-cycle health on post-secondary educational choices and outcomes. We use panel data for a sample of 10,430 individuals who were high school seniors in the spring of 1972, and who were re-surveyed in October of each year...

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The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife : A Study in Design-Specific Inference

Heckman, James J. - 2019

-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of the experiment, compromises in and adjustments to the randomization protocol …

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Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height : A Cautionary Tale

Bitler, Marianne - 2019

Estimates of teacher "value-added" suggest teachers vary substantially in their ability to promote student learning. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job performance. In this paper, we conduct a new test of the...

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Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2018

Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a linear index -- known as a polygenic score -- are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and...

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