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As Low Birth Weight Babies Grow, Can 'Good' Parents Buffer this Adverse Factor? A Research Note.

林, 林明仁(Ming-Jen Lin); Liu, Jin-Tan; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

does occur, but only in those cases where the daughters were LBW babies. Moreover, high parental education (HPE) can only …

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Local Violence, Educational Attainment, and Teacher Pay

Grogger, Jeffrey T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Violence in and around schools has drawn increasing attention lately from both the public and policy makers. Despite the importance of the problem, however, research on this topic has been limited. In this paper I analyze how local violence affects high school graduation, college attendance, and...

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Schools and Location: Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy

Hanushek, Eric; Yilmaz, Kuzey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive. Instead they respond to policies with a combination of modified residential choice and political choice of tax levels. The highly stylized decision models of most existing analyses, however, lead to...

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Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?

Long, Bridget Terry; Kurlaender, Michal - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

four-year institutions within the Ohio public higher education system. Using a detailed dataset, we track outcomes for nine …

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Does School Choice Increase School Quality?

DeSimone, Jeffrey S; Rupp, Nicholas G.; Holmes, George M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Federal No Child Left Behind' legislation, which enables students of low-performing schools to exercise public school choice, exemplies a widespread belief that competing for students will spur public schools to higher achievement. We investigate how the introduction of school choice in North...

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Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation

Koedel, Cory; Betts, Julian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

increasingly common in testing instruments across the country as education policy continues to emphasize proficiency-based reform …

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Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates

Guryan, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

In 1954 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that separate schools for black and white children were 'inherently unequal.' This paper studies whether the desegregation plans of the next 30 years in fact benefited the black students for whom the plans were designed. Analysis of data from...

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Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education … American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly in America's heartland - a region we dub the 'education belt.' At … education very early. Iowa's small towns, as well as those across the nation, were the loci of the high school movement. In an …

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...

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Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?

Ehrenberg, Ronald; Rizzo, Michael J.; Jakubson, George H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Scientific research has come to dominate many American universities. Even with growing external support, increasingly the costs of scientific research are being funded out of internal university funds. Our paper explains why this is occuring, presents estimates of the magnitudes of start-up cost...

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