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Busing to Opportunity? The Impacts of the METCO Voluntary School Desegregation Program on Urban Students of Color

Setren, Elizabeth - 2024

strongest for students whose parents did not graduate college. …

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Does access to secondary education affect primary schooling? Evidence from India

Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

, parents have lesser interest in their children's education even at the primary stage. …

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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables

Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2012

This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when...

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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011

A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered implementation across Sweden. We first show that the...

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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011

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Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bergman, Peter Leopold S. - 2015

This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child’s academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child’s effort and the …

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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

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Microeconometric Evaluations of Education Policies

Siegler, Benedikt - 2015

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes...

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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added

Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012

The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...

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What Next for School Vouchers?

Peterson, Paul E. - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 57-61

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