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Student abilities during the expansion of US education

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …

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Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

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Discipline reform, school culture and student achievement

Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2025

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...

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Better together? : social networks in truancy and the targeting of treatment

Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter - 2018

Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...

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Conditional gender peer effects?

Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag; Bonesrønning, Hans - 2014

the level of special education provided. …

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Social interactions, mechanisms, and equilibrium : evidence from a model of study time and academic achievement

Conley, Timothy G.; Mehta, Nirav; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - 2018

We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...

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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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Stay in school or start working? : the human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Pilichowski, Margarethe - 2009

analytical discussion of all determinants of the decision to terminate education and enter the labor market. Further, as we are …

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

growth. -- human capital ; cognitive skills ; international student achievement tests ; education production function …

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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

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