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Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

Dobbie, Will - 2009

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the … eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … overcome. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies lead us to the same story: Harlem Children's Zone is …

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Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes

Dobbie, Will S. - 2016

We estimate the impact of charter schools on early-life labor market outcomes using administrative data from Texas. We find that, at the mean, charter schools have no impact on test scores and a negative impact on earnings. No Excuses charter schools increase test scores and four-year college...

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Management and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2017

This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...

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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 …

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Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools : Evidence from SEED

Curto, Vilsa E. - 2011

The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of...

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Information and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Cellular Phone Experiment

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2013

This paper describes a field experiment in Oklahoma City Public Schools in which students were provided with free … cellular phones and daily information about the link between human capital and future outcomes via text message. Students …' reported beliefs about the relationship between education and outcomes were influenced by treatment, and treatment students …

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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...

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