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High Schools That Work and college preparedness: Measuring the model's impact on mathematics and science pipeline progression

Miller, Luke C.; Mittleman, Joel - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1116-1135

The High Schools That Work school improvement initiative is the nation's largest comprehensive school reform model with over a thousand schools adopting its framework. The initiative's premise is that all students can meet the demands of a college preparatory curriculum if provided the right...

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School choice and student wellbeing

Green, Colin P.; Navarro-Paniagua, María; … - In: Economics of Education Review 38 (2014) C, pp. 139-150

The debate over private versus public provision of schooling remains contentious. A large literature has developed focusing on the relative educational performance of different school types. Beyond these important outcomes, variations in schooling may have direct effects on students’...

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The impact of a Caribbean home-visiting child development program on cognitive skills

Janssens, Wendy; Rosemberg, Cristina - In: Economics of Education Review 39 (2014) C, pp. 22-37

This paper provides a short-term impact evaluation of a home-visiting Early Child Development (ECD) program in the Caribbean aimed at vulnerable children from birth to three years. The analysis is based on a quasi-experimental research design including approximately four hundred children in...

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Strategic pay reform: A student outcomes-based evaluation of Denver's ProComp teacher pay initiative

Goldhaber, Dan; Walch, Joe - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1067-1083

Denver Public Schools utilizes one of the nation's highest profile alternative teacher compensation systems, and a key element of Denver's Professional Compensation System for Teachers (ProComp) is pay for performance. This study analyzes the student achievement implications of ProComp utilizing...

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Representation in the classroom: The effect of own-race teachers on student achievement

Egalite, Anna J.; Kisida, Brian; Winters, Marcus A. - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 44-52

Previous research suggests that there are academic benefits when students and teachers share the same race/ethnicity because such teachers can serve as role models, mentors, advocates, or cultural translators. In this paper, we obtain estimates of achievement changes as students are assigned to...

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The labor market returns to a for-profit college education

Cellini, Stephanie Riegg; Chaudhary, Latika - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 125-140

A lengthy literature estimating the returns to education has largely ignored the for-profit sector. In this paper, we estimate the earnings gains to for-profit college attendance using restricted-access data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). Using an individual fixed...

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Knocking on the door to the teaching profession? Modeling the entry of prospective teachers into the workforce

Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 106-124

institutions to investigate patterns of entry into the teaching workforce. We estimate split population models that simultaneously … estimate the impact of individual characteristics and student teaching experiences on the timing and probability of initial … interns, and interns who completed their student teaching in suburban schools are also more likely to find a teaching job, all …

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The effect of household hospitalizations on the educational attainment of youth

Johnson, Eric; Reynolds, C. Lockwood - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 165-182

We utilize data from the NLSY97 to investigate the effect of week-long hospitalizations of household members on the educational attainment of youth. These significant household health events could result in a combination of financial and time constraints on the household, limiting the...

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Repayment burdens of student loans for Vietnamese higher education

Chapman, Bruce; Liu, Amy Y.C. - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 298-308

Expansion of high education in Vietnam will be undermined without an effective student, loans policy to assist with tuition and living costs. We show the significance of this issue is by, constructing a hypothetical loans system and calculating repayment burdens (RBs) (the proportion of, a...

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Understanding the role of time-varying unobserved ability heterogeneity in education production

Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven F. - In: Economics of Education Review 40 (2014) C, pp. 55-75

Unobserved ability heterogeneity has long been postulated to play a key role in human capital development. Traditional strategies to estimate education production functions do not allow for varying role or development of unobserved ability as a child ages. Such restrictions are highly...

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