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which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates of the effect of charter school attendance on middle-schoolers in charter … exclusion restriction in such comparisons. Estimates for a large sample of takeover schools in the New Orleans Recovery School … for a middle school, grandfathered students see achievement gains at least as large as the gains for students assigned …
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We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school …
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. Second, we document large income-based gaps in educational attainments, including high-school graduation rates and college …
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Does financial aid increase college attendance and completion? Selection bias and the high implicit tax rates imposed by overlapping aid programs make this question difficult to answer. This paper reports initial findings from a randomized evaluation of a large privately-funded scholarship...
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There has been a resurgence in research that investigates the efficacy of early investments as a means of reducing gaps in academic performance. However, the strongest evidence for these effects comes from experimental evaluations of small, highly enriched programs. We add to this literature by...
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Many countries, American jurisdictions and charter schools have recently embraced longer school days or more time … time and that the increase varies by both amount of time and classroom environment. These results indicate that school …
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scores, a finding revealed in a natural experiment that randomly assigned school monitors. IV estimates also show that small …
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states, we show large increases in murder and incarceration rates after these dates. Black high school graduation rates also … decline, and we estimate that crack markets accounts for between 40 and 73 percent of the fall in black male high school …
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high school graduation in Massachusetts, with especially large effects on the likelihood of qualifying for a state …
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More than low default rates, lenders are interested in the expected return on their loans. In this paper, we consider a number of other measures of repayment and nonpayment that are likely to be of direct interest to lenders. Using data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, we...
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