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One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

York, Benjamin N.; Loeb, Susanna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

that have shown promise often are not widely accessible, either due to the demands they place on parents’ time and effort … or cost. In this study, we evaluate the effects of READY4K!, a text messaging program for parents of preschoolers … support for an entire school year. We find that READY4K! positively affected the extent to which parents engaged in home …

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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming

Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Ahuja, Amrita; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …

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All or Nothing? The Impact of School and Classroom Gender Composition on Effort and Academic Achievement

Lee, Soohyung; Turner, Lesley J.; Woo, Seokjin; Kim, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We estimate the causal impact of school and classroom gender composition on achievement. We take advantage of the random assignment of Korean middle school students to single-sex schools, co-educational (coed) schools with single-sex classes, and coed schools with mixed-gender classes. Male...

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The Effects of Texas's Targeted Pre-Kindergarten Program on Academic Performance

Andrews, Rodney J.; Jargowsky, Paul; Kuhne, Kristin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

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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Flaking Out: Student Absences and Snow Days as Disruptions of Instructional Time

Goodman, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Despite the fact that the average American student is absent more than two weeks out of every school year, most research on the effect of instructional time has focused not on attendance but on the length of the school day or year. Student and school fixed effects models using Massachusetts data...

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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra

Cortes, Kalena; Goodman, Joshua; Nomi, Takako - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...

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Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model

Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We estimate a dynamic learning model of the college dropout decision, taking advantage of unique expectations data to greatly reduce our reliance on assumptions that would otherwise be necessary for identification. We find that forty-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two...

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School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime: Evidence from the end of busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg

Billings, Stephen B.; Deming, David J.; Rockoff, Jonah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We study the impact of the end of race-based busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools ("CMS") on academic achievement, educational attainment, and young adult crime. In 2001, CMS was prohibited from using race in assigning students to schools. School boundaries were redrawn dramatically to...

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The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit College Education

Cellini, Stephanie Riegg; Chaudhary, Latika - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

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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