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/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …
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significant reductions in academic performance, particularly for the highest-performing students. This suggests that the negative …
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assigned to peer groups of about 30 students with whom they are required to spend the majority of their time interacting. This …
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no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …
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goal of maximizing the academic performance of the lowest ability students. Our assignment algorithm uses peer effects … estimates from the observational data. We find a negative and significant treatment effect for the students we intended to help …. We show that within our "optimal" peer groups, students self-selected into bifurcated sub-groups with social dynamics …
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We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We construct a state/graduation-cohort dataset using the Current Population Survey, Census and information on exit exams. We find relatively modest effects of high school exit exams...
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more students at not-for-profits earn a BA, making them less likely to have only an Associate's degree. There is …
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ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine …
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linking administrative data on elementary school students to subsequent test scores, college attendance and completion, and … children from families linked to domestic violence, who were shown by Carrell and Hoekstra (2010, 2012) to disrupt … reduces earnings at age 26 by 3 to 4 percent. We estimate that differential exposure to children linked to domestic violence …
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In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading …
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