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Effects of scaling up private school choice programs on public school students

Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - 2021

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students’ outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited...

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Competitive effects of charter schools

Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - 2024

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We...

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Public finance in the era of the Covid-19 crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022

education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption …

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low-education individuals are most likely to profit … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …

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Money matters : evidence from a large-scale Randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

of fifty percent. -- Field experiment ; voucher ; adult education ; training ; Switzerland …

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The effects of financial aid on graduation and labor market outcomes : new evidence from matched education-labor data

Rattini, Veronica - 2022

Financial aid decreases the cost of acquiring additional education. By using Italian administrative and survey data on …

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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2016

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …

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The effects of school integration : evidence from a randomized desegregation program

Bergman, Peter - 2016

This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...

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The compositional effect of rigorous teacher evaluation on workforce quality

Cullen, Julie Berry; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric - 2016

Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is …

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Who benefits from universal child care? : estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...

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