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receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …
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support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
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activities, complete high-school and enroll in post-secondary education on youths' engagement in risky behaviors, such as …
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We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...
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-risk youth ; resilience ; deviancy training ; deterrence ; primary- and high-school ; post-secondary education ; remedial …
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With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher … education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the … any future student loan system within Ireland from a fiscal viewpoint. -- higher education financing ; dynamic …
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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 students...
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
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Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
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