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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?
Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Peer effects have figured prominently in debates on school vouchers, desegregation, ability tracking and anti-poverty programs. Compelling evidence of their existence remains scarce for plaguing endogeneity issues such as selection bias and the reflection problem. This paper firmly establishes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085276
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Home Production and the Macro Economy-Some Lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from Transition Russia
Gronau, Reuben - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Recent years witnessed a flourishing of literature on the implication of shifts from home- production to market production on the macro economy, and in particular, the real business cycle. This literature employs calibration techniques to emulate the fluctuations in market output, labor and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828900
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Can Online Learning Bend the Higher Education Cost Curve?
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.; Deming, David J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We examine whether online learning technologies have led to lower prices in higher education. Using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, we show that online education is concentrated in large for-profit chains and less-selective public institutions. Colleges with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133520
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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
Angrist, Joshua; Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Hull, Peter D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn’t capture treatment effects for students who haven’t applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105929
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The Supply of and Demand for Charitable Donations to Higher Education
Brown, Jeffrey Robert; Dimmock, Stephen G.; Weisbenner, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
shocks operate. In panel data with fixed effects to control for unobservable differences across universities, we find that … management by colleges and universities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106379
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Endowment Management Based on a Positive Model of the University
Hoxby, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
I propose a positive model of the university that generates many apparently peculiar features of universities such as … within the model: they are a necessary feature of certain universities, not an accident. The model has important implications … for the decisions that universities should make on many fronts, but I focus on the implications for financial decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106380
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The Interaction of Spending Policies, Asset Allocation Strategies, and Investment Performance at University Endowment Funds
Brown, Keith; Tiu, Cristian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using data for more than 800 college and university endowment funds over 2003-2011, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the spending policies used in practice as well as how frequently and why those mandates are revised over time. Given the long-term and relatively static nature of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106381
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Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid
Angrist, Joshua; Autor, David; Hudson, Sally; Pallais, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
evaluation of a large privately-funded scholarship program for applicants to Nebraska's public colleges and universities. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119803
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Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123617
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Borrowing Trouble? Student Loans, the Cost of Borrowing, and Implications for the Effectiveness of Need-Based Grant Aid
Marx, Benjamin M.; Turner, Lesley J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We use regression discontinuity and regression kink designs to estimate the impact of need-based grant aid on the borrowing and educational attainment of students enrolled in a large public university system. Pell Grant aid substantially reduces borrowing: among students who would borrow in the...
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