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Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices after a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added

Imberman, Scott A. - 2013

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have … analysis is the first in the school valuation literature to examine property value responses to a value-added information shock …, which is of interest as this measure is less correlated with demographics than typical school quality measures. Unique to …

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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2016

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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The Effects of School Integration : Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program

Bergman, Peter - 2016

school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school … students who apply to transfer from a nearby, predominantly-minority school district. Slots are allocated via lottery. The …

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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2016

International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. Using unique assessment data, we construct country-level measures of teacher...

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How Effective are Advertising Bans? On the Demand for Quality in Two-Sided Media Markets

Greiner, Tanja - 2011

We study a two-sided markets model of two competing television stations that offer content of differentiated quality to ad-averse consumers and advertising space to firms. As all consumers prefer high over low quality content, competition for viewers is vertical. By contrast, competition for...

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Donating Time or Money : Are They Substitutes or Complements?

Hartmann, Bastian - 2012

Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...

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The Influence of Special Interests and Party Activists on Electoral Competition

Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2021

This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labor for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....

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Volunteering and the Strategic Value of Ignorance

Morath, Florian - 2021

Private provision of public goods often takes place as a war of attrition: individuals wait until someone else volunteers and provides the good. After a certain time period, however, one individual may be randomly selected. If the individuals are uncertain about their cost of provision, but can...

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Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts Misbehavior at School

Cohn, Alain - 2017

cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a … common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three types of school misconduct: (i) disruptiveness in class, (ii) homework … school, suggesting that experimental measures of cheating generalize to rule violating behaviour in naturally occurring …

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Is Additional Schooling Worthless? Revising the Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018

This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...

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