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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities

Avery, Christopher; Glickman, Mark E.; Hoxby, Caroline M.; … - 2006

We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct examples of national and regional rankings, using hand-collected data on 3,240 high-achieving students. Our statistical model extends models used for ranking players in...

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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

Maccini, Sharon - 2010

How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...

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Seeing and Hearing : The Impacts of New York City’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program on the Health of Low-Income Children

Hong, Kai - 2019

We examine the effect of New York City's universal pre-kindergarten program (UPK) on the health and utilization of children enrolled in Medicaid using a difference-in-regression- discontinuities design. We find that UPK increases the probability that a child is diagnosed with asthma or with...

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Publicly Provided Education

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2022

Historically, most attention in public programs has been given to the resources devoted to the activity, and resources have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education differs from other areas of public expenditure because direct measures of outcomes are available, making it is...

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Test Scores, Educational Opportunities, and Individual Choice

Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David A. - 2004

A model combining student preferences for college with university admissions decisions is estimated to provide information on the role of test scores in the determination of post-secondary educational opportunities. In contrast to implications of much of the recent criticism of tests and their...

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The Labor of Division : Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework

Goodman, Joshua S. - 2017

Despite great focus on and public investment in STEM education, little causal evidence connects quantitative coursework to students' economic outcomes. I show that state changes in minimum high school math requirements substantially increase Black students' completed math coursework and their...

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Engineering Educational Opportunity : Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science

Weinberger, Catherine - 2017

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. institutions of higher education began to address long-standing patterns of exclusion. Initial efforts to improve the access of black students to engineering education focused on six historically black engineering colleges, and evolved into a truly nationwide...

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Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity : Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending

Johnson, Rucker - 2017

We explore whether early childhood human-capital investments are complementary to those made later in life. Using the … during their preschool years. The findings suggest that early investments in the skills of disadvantaged children that are … followed by sustained educational investments over time can effectively break the cycle of poverty …

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School Performance, Accountability and Waiver Reforms : Evidence from Louisiana

Dee, Thomas S. - 2017

States that received federal waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act were required to implement reforms in designated "Focus Schools" that contribute to achievement gaps. In this study, we examine the performance effects of such "differentiated accountability" reforms in the state of...

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The Effects of School Reform Under Nclb Waivers : Evidence from Focus Schools in Kentucky

Bonilla, Sade - 2017

Under waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the federal government required states to identify schools where targeted subgroups of students have the lowest achievement and to implement reforms in these “Focus Schools.” In this study, we examine the Focus School reforms in the state...

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