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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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Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2006

Returns to education are traditionally estimated in a Mincer wage equation from the variation in schooling for a cross-section of individuals of different ages. Because individuals receive education at different time periods, when the quality of their education may not be identical, this method...

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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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Four Facts about Human Capital

Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings within countries and at least half of the variation across countries. Second, human capital...

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The effect of price shocks on undocumented students' college attainment and completion

Conger, Dylan; Turner, Lesley J. - In: Journal of public economics 148 (2017), pp. 92-114

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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement

Hoffmann, Florian - 2006

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004

The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...

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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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How Informal Mentoring by Teachers, Counselors, and Coaches Supports Students' Long-Run Academic Success

Kraft, Matthew A.; Bolves, Alexander J.; Hurd, Noelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

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Non-Cognitive Deficits and Young Adult Outcomes : The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program

Baker, Michael - 2015

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

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