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Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers : Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua - 2004

Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 poor children with vouchers that covered half the cost of private secondary school. The vouchers were renewable annually conditional on adequate academic progress. Since many vouchers were assigned by lottery, program effects can reliably be...

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Stand and Deliver : Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2013

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of attendance at Boston's charter high schools on college preparation, college attendance, and college choice. Charter attendance increases pass rates on the high-stakes exam required for high school graduation in Massachusetts, with especially...

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Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement : Evidence from New York City

Dobbie, Will - 2011

Publicly funded exam schools educate many of the world's most talented students. These schools typically contain higher achieving peers, more rigorous instruction, and additional resources compared to regular public schools. This paper uses a sharp discontinuity in the admissions process at...

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Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond

Murnane, Richard J. - 1999

This paper examines the value of the GED credential and the conventional high school diploma in explaining the earnings of 27-year-old males in the early 1990s. The data base is the High School & Beyond sophomore cohort. We replicate the basic findings of prior studies that implicitly assume the...

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Education and Saving : The Long-Term Effects of High School Financial Curriculum Mandates

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 1997

Over the last forty years, the majority of states have adopted consumer education policies, and a sizable minority have specifically mandated that high school students receive instruction on topics related to household financial decision-making (budgeting so forth). In this paper, we attempt to...

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Top of the Class : The Importance of Ordinal Rank

Murphy, Richard - 2018

This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has long-run impacts that are independent from underlying ability. Using data on the universe of English school students, we exploit naturally occurring differences in achievement...

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Who Benefits From Attending Effective Schools? Examining Heterogeneity in High School Impacts

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2020

We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviours in 9th-grade) for students who are more versus less educationally advantaged (i.e., likely to attain more years...

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany : Evidence and Interpretation

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2005

the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries …

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from PIRLS

Ammermueller, Andreas - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Overcoming Racial Gaps in School Preferences : The Effect of Peer Diversity on School Choice

Idoux, Clemence M.; Corradini, Viola - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Differences in school choice by race contribute to school segregation and unequal access to effective schools. Conditional on test score and district of residence, Black and Hispanic families consistently choose schools with fewer white and Asian students, lower average achievement, and lower...

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