NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Health, Education, and Welfare

Education and Research Insititutions


2009
w15531 Thomas Dee
Brian Jacob

The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement

w15493 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

Family Bonding with Universities

w15485 David O. Meltzer
Zhuo Chen

The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States

w15473 Will Dobbie
Roland G. Fryer
Jr

Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

w15471 James J. Heckman
Seong Hyeok Moon
Rodrigo Pinto
Peter A. Savelyev
Adam Yavitz

The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

w15461 Susan Dynarski
Jonathan Gruber
Danielle Li

Cheaper By the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

w15446 Caroline M. Hoxby
The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges

w15430 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Steven D. Levitt

An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

w15387 David Deming
Susan Dynarski

Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor

w15380 David A. Weiner
Byron F. Lutz
Jens Ludwig

The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime

w15361 Eric P. Bettinger
Bridget Terry Long
Philip Oreopoulos
Lisa Sanbonmatsu

The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment

w15339 Philip Oreopoulos
Kjell G. Salvanes

How large are returns to schooling? Hint: Money isn't everything

w15323 Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

w15299 Shawn Kantor
Alexander Whalley

Do Universities Generate Agglomeration Spillovers? Evidence from Endowment Value Shocks

w15291 Scott Imberman
Adriana D. Kugler
Bruce Sacerdote

Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees

w15272 John Bound
Brad Hershbein
Bridget Terry Long

Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition

w15238 Glenn Ellison
Ashley Swanson

The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions

w15236 Rashmi Barua
Kevin Lang

School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE

w15233 James D. Adams
Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education?

w15217 Lex Borghans
Frank Cörvers

The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research

w15216 Douglas A. Webber
Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education

w15210 Patrick Bajari
Jeremy T. Fox
Kyoo il Kim
Stephen P. Ryan

A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of Random Coefficients

w15202 C. Kirabo Jackson
Elias Bruegmann

Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers

w15200 Weili Ding
Steven F. Lehrer

Estimating Treatment Effects from Contaminated Multi-Period Education Experiments: The Dynamic Impacts of Class Size Reductions

w15182 Miles S. Kimball
Colter M. Mitchell
Arland D. Thornton
Linda C. Young-Demarco

Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity

w15087 Orazio Attanasio
Katja Kaufmann

Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints

w15148 Jason M. Fletcher
Steven F. Lehrer

Using Genetic Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement

w15146 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
Krishna B. Kumar
Neeraj Sood

Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D

w15126 Thomas Dee
Conditional Cash Penalties in Education: Evidence from the Learnfare Experiment

w15112 W. Bentley MacLeod
Miguel Urquiola

Anti-Lemons: School Reputation and Educational Quality

w15066 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

w15057 Rema Hanna
Leigh Linden

Measuring Discrimination in Education

w15037 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

The ABCs of Charitable Solicitation

w14994 Robert Kaestner
Michael Grossman
Benjamin Yarnoff

Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment

w14974 Dahlia K. Remler
Elda Pema

Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?

w14973 Nancy Qian
Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy:The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China

w14959 Scott E. Carrell
Marianne E. Page
James E. West

Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap

w14951 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Do Investments in Universal Early Education Pay Off? Long-term Effects of Introducing Kindergartens into Public Schools

w14949 Manuela Angelucci
Giacomo DeGiorgi
Marcos A. Rangel
Imran Rasul

Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment

w14948 Giacomo DeGiorgi
Michele Pellizzari
Silvia Redaelli

Be as Careful of the Company You Keep as of the Books You Read: Peer Effects in Education and on the Labor Market

w14945 Carlos Dobkin
Fernando Ferreira

Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?

w14932 Joseph Golec
John Vernon

What's the "Interest" in FDA Drug Advisory Committee Conflicts of Interest?

w14911 C. Kirabo Jackson
Ability-grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence From Rule-based Student Assignments

w14885 Peter Arcidiacono
Esteban M. Aucejo
Hanming Fang
Kenneth I. Spenner

Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence

w14879 Meta Brown
John Karl Scholz
Ananth Seshadri

A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education

w14869 Elizabeth Cascio
Nora Gordon
Ethan Lewis
Sarah Reber

Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools

w14864 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Parag A. Pathak
Alvin E. Roth

Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the New York City High School Match

w14853 Emily Oster
Rebecca Thornton

Menstruation and Education in Nepal

w14852 Caroline M. Hoxby
Sonali Murarka

Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls and How They Affect Their Students' Achievement

w14851 Philippe Aghion
Mathias Dewatripont
Caroline M. Hoxby
Andreu Mas-Colell
André Sapir

The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.

w14844 Christopher Avery
Jonathan D. Levin

Early Admissions at Selective Colleges

w14842 John Engberg
Dennis Epple
Jason Imbrogno
Holger Sieg
Ron Zimmer

Estimation of Causal Effects in Experiments with Multiple Sources of Noncompliance

w14810 Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

Learning about Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision

w14792 John Bound
Sarah Turner
Patrick Walsh

Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education

w14780 Jennifer L. Steele
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers? Evidence from California

w14778 Cory Koedel
Julian Betts

Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation

w14777 Philip Babcock
Julian R. Betts

Reduced-Class Distinctions: Effort, Ability, and the Education Production Function

w14775 Marigee Bacolod
John DiNardo
Mireille Jacobson

Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?

w14705 Thomas S. Dee
Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete

w14679 Nicole Maestas
Mathis Schroeder
Dana Goldman

Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods: The Case of Medigap

w14671 Phillip B. Levine
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

The Impact of Children's Public Health Insurance Expansions on Educational Outcomes

w14666 Jesse Rothstein
Student sorting and bias in value added estimation: Selection on observables and unobservables

w14633 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation


2008
w14624 Kevin Milligan
Mark Stabile

Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions

w14618 Clayton Featherstone
Muriel Niederle

Ex Ante Efficiency in School Choice Mechanisms: An Experimental Investigation

w14608 Steven Cantrell
Jon Fullerton
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment

w14607 Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation

w14591 Dhaval M. Dave
Sandra Decker
Robert Kaestner
Kosali I. Simon

Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women

w14564 Jonah E. Rockoff
Lesley J. Turner

Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

w14550 Brian Jacob
Jens Ludwig

Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children

w14535 Helena Skyt Nielsen
Torben Sørensen
Christopher R. Taber

Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

w14516 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Fernando Ferreira
Jesse Rothstein

The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design

w14485 Jonah E. Rockoff
Brian A. Jacob
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?

w14475 Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
Michael Kremer

Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

w14474 Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin

Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

w14466 Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman

Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women

w14442 Jesse Rothstein
Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement

w14415 Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman
Analia Schlosser

Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom

w14385 Bruce Sacerdote
When The Saints Come Marching In: Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees

w14367 Bridget Terry Long
Michal Kurlaender

Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?

w14354 Anna Aizer
Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation: the Externalities of ADD

w14311 Abhijit Banerjee
Rukmini Banerji
Esther Duflo
Rachel Glennerster
Stuti Khemani

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India

w14340 Isaac Ehrlich
William A. Hamlen Jr.
Yong Yin

Asset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets

w14338 Victor Lavy
Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers

w14314 Donald Boyd
Pamela Grossman
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement

w14297 Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis
Muna Husain

School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity

w14277 Matthew Neidell
Jane Waldfogel

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education

w14276 Jesse Rothstein
Albert H. Yoon

Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?

w14275 Jesse Rothstein
Albert Yoon

Mismatch in Law School

w14261 Jason M. Lindo
Nicholas J. Sanders
Philip Oreopoulos

Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards: Evidence from Academic Probation

w14265 Melissa Clark
Jesse Rothstein
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores

w14246 Scott E. Carrell
Mark L. Hoekstra

Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids

w14240 Lisa Barrow
Lisa Markman
Cecilia E. Rouse

Technology's Edge: The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction

w14213 Lindsay C. Page
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gap:Clarifying the Meaning of Within- and Between-School Achievement Gaps

w14211 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap

w14194 Juan Carlos Calcagno
Bridget Terry Long

The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach: Addressing Endogenous Sorting and Noncompliance

w14186 John P. Papay
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts

w14176 David Card
Martin Dooley
Abigail Payne

School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools

w14155 Ofer Malamud
Cristian Pop-Eleches

General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition

w14138 Benjamin F. Jones
The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered

w14081 Scott E. Carrell
James E. West

Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors

w14124 David Deming
Susan Dynarski

The Lengthening of Childhood

w14073 Elizabeth Cascio
Damon Clark
Nora Gordon

Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood

w14065 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren
David Sims

The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains

w14057 Albert N. Link
Christopher J. Ruhm

Bringing Science to Market: Commercializing from NIH SBIR Awards

w14052 Jonathan Heathcote
Kjetil Storesletten
Giovanni L. Violante

The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

w14021 Donald Boyd
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
Jonah Rockoff
James Wyckoff

The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

w14037 Trevon D. Logan
Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910

w14032 Scott E. Carrell
Richard L. Fullerton
James E. West

Does Your Cohort Matter? Measuring Peer Effects in College Achievement

w14031 Sharon L. Maccini
Dean Yang

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

w14022 Donald Boyd
Pam Grossman
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement

w13997 John Cawley
C. Katharina Spiess

Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood

w14006 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
The Impact of Employment during School on College Student Academic Performance

w13994 Thomas Dee
Martin West

The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size

w13969 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Too Young to Leave the Nest: The Effects of School Starting Age

w13947 Seema Jayachandran
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence From Maternal Mortality Declines

w13937 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

The Impact of Athletic Performance on Alumni Giving: An Analysis of Micro Data

w13928 Keith Finlay
David Neumark

Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration

w13926 Marianne Bertrand
Rema Hanna
Sendhil Mullainathan

Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India

w13912 Lance J. Lochner
Alexander Monge-Naranjo

The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital

w13890 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Marianne Bertrand
Leigh L. Linden
Francisco Perez-Calle

Conditional Cash Transfers in Education Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

w13868 Jonah E. Rockoff
Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

w13849 Yao Li
John Whalley
Shunming Zhang
Xiliang Zhao

The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications

w13838 Erica M. Field
Omar Robles
Máximo Torero

The Cognitive Link Between Geography and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania

w13816 John H. Tyler
Magnus Lofstrom

Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?

w13810 Lex Borghans
Angela Lee Duckworth
James J. Heckman
Bas ter Weel

The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

w13801 Susan Dynarski
Judith E. Scott-Clayton

Complexity and Targeting in Federal Student Aid: A Quantitative Analysis

w13791 Richard J. Murnane
Educating Urban Children

w13766 Michael Ostrovsky
Michael Schwarz

Information Disclosure and Unraveling in Matching Markets

w13764 Robert Kaestner
Michael Grossman

Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement


2007
w13681 Cecilia Elena Rouse
Jane Hannaway
Dan Goldhaber
David Figlio

Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure

w13670 James J. Heckman
Paul A. LaFontaine

The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels

w13663 Elizabeth Cascio
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function

w13648 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor

Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.?

w13623 Justine S. Hastings
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments

w13617 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor

Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects

w13609 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development

w13676 Alejandra Mizala
Miguel Urquiola

School Markets: The Impact of Information Approximating Schools' Effectiveness

w13589 Joseph Kaboski
Trevon D. Logan

Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill: New Evidence from the American Past

w13527 Philippe Belley
Lance Lochner

The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

w13524 Dennis N. Epple
Maria Marta Ferreyra

School Finance Reform: Assessing General Equilibrium Effects

w13514 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion

w13474 Jason Fletcher
Barbara L. Wolfe

Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited

w13466 Shin-Yi Chou
Jin-Tan Liu
Michael Grossman
Theodore J. Joyce

Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

w13443 Julie Berry Cullen
Brian A. Jacob

Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries

w13411 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen

Long-term consequences of vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience, and earnings

w13407 Pinka Chatterji
Ellen Meara

Consequences of Eliminating Federal Disability Benefits for Substance Abusers

t0343 Jay Bhattacharya
William B. Vogt

Do Instrumental Variables Belong in Propensity Scores?

w13396 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom

"Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS Health Workers: Educating and Retaining the Workforce to Provide Antiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13356 Raegen T. Miller
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

Do Teacher Absences Impact Student Achievement? Longitudinal Evidence from One Urban School District

w13347 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Mårten Palme

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

w13342 Braz Camargo
Todd Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

Evidence about the Potential Role for Affirmative Action in Higher Education

w13341 Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

The Causal Effect of Studying on Academic Performance

w13340 Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study

w13335 Sun Go
Peter H. Lindert

The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools

w13319 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke

To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

w13303 Miguel Urquiola
Eric Verhoogen

Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence

w13300 Paul Glewwe
Michael Kremer
Sylvie Moulin

Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya

w13293 Derek Neal
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Left Behind By Design: Proficiency Counts and Test-Based Accountability

w13292 Victor Lavy
Analía Schlosser

Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School

w13279 Elizabeth Cascio
Nora Gordon
Ethan Lewis
Sarah Reber

From Brown to Busing

w13272 Glenn Ellison
Is Peer Review in Decline?

w13262 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Fraternity Membership and Drinking Behavior

w13217 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile

Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital

w13193 Sarah J. Reber
School Desegregation and Educational Attainment for Blacks

w13192 Sarah J. Reber
From Separate and Unequal to Integrated and Equal? School Desegregation and School Finance in Louisiana

w13182 Florian Hoffman
Philip Oreopoulos

A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement

w13175 Albert Yung-Hsu Liu
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Jesenka Mrdjenovic

Diffusion of Common Application Membership and Admissions Outcomes at American Colleges and Universities

w13152 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

Altruism and the Child-Cycle of Alumni Giving

w13117 Jesse Rothstein
Cecilia Elena Rouse

Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

w13070 Una Okonkwo Osili
Bridget Terry Long

Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria

w13038 Bruce A. Weinberg
Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations

w13036 Roland G. Fryer
Michael Greenstone

The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

w13027 Alan B. Krueger
David A. Schkade

The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

w13016 James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov

The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

w13009 Justine S. Hastings
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

No Child Left Behind: Estimating the Impact on Choices and Student Outcomes

w12995 Justine S. Hastings
Richard Van Weelden
Jeffrey Weinstein

Preferences, Information, and Parental Choice Behavior in Public School Choice

w12988 Jacob Vigdor
Jens Ludwig

Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

w12984 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005

w12973 Jens Ludwig
Deborah A. Phillips

The Benefits and Costs of Head Start

w12960 Eric A. Hanushek
Kuzey Yilmaz

Schools and Location: Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy

w12941 Ginger Zhe Jin
Alex Whalley

The Power of Attention: Do Rankings Affeect the Financial Resources of Public Colleges?

w12907 Thomas DeLeire
Leonard M. Lopoo
Kosali I. Simon

Medicaid Expansions and Fertility in the United States

w12868 Isaac Ehrlich
The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the US Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century

w12863 Pietro Garibaldi
Francesco Giavazzi
Andrea Ichino
Enrico Rettore

College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities

w12857 Ming-Jen Lin
Jin-Tan Liu
Shin-Yi Chou

As Low Birth Weight Babies Grow, Can 'Good' Parents Buffer this Adverse Factor? A Research Note.

w12844 Bruce A. Weinberg
Belton M. Fleisher
Masanori Hashimoto

Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education

w12832 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development

w12828 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor

How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?

w12817 Brian A. Jacob
Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement: An Investigation of Differential Performance on NAEP and State Assessments


2006
w12803 Allan Begosh
John Goldsmith
Ed Hass
Randall W. Lutter
Clark Nardinelli
John A. Vernon

Black Box Warnings and Drug Safety: Examining the Determinants and Timing of FDA Warning Labels

w12790 Joshua Angrist
Daniel Lang
Philip Oreopoulos

Lead Them to Water and Pay Them to Drink: An Experiment with Services and Incentives for College Achievement

w12737 Eric A. Hanushek
Victor Lavy
Kohtaro Hitomi

Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries

w12689 Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Harsha Thirumurthy
Markus Goldstein

AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya

w12665 Matthias Doepke
Dirk Krueger

Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

w12664 Eric A. Hanushek
Lei Zhang

Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill

w12652 Eliot A. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison
Eric A. Hanushek

The Effects of Education Quality on Income Growth and Mortality Decline

w12651 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap

w12640 Carlos Rosell
Ajay Agrawal

University Patenting: Estimating the Diminishing Breadth of Knowledge Diffusion and Consumption

w12628 Colleen Donovan
David N. Figlio
Mark Rush

Cramming: The Effects of School Accountability on College-Bound Students

w12627 David N. Figlio
Lawrence Kenny

Individual Teacher Incentives And Student Performance

w12596 Florian Hoffmann
Philip Oreopoulos

Professor Qualities and Student Achievement

w12553 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History

w12472 Philip J. Cook
Rebecca Hutchinson

Smoke Signals: Adolescent Smoking and School Continuation

w12424 John Bound
Sarah Turner

Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment

w12352 David M. Cutler
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence

w12325 Dean Yang
International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

w12305 Weili Ding
Steven F. Lehrer

Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?

w12304 Weili Ding
Steven F. Lehrer
J. Niels Rosenquist
Janet Audrain-McGovern

The Impact of Poor Health on Education: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers

w12291 John Cawley
Richard V. Burkhauser

Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research

w12286 Julie Berry Cullen
Randall Reback

Tinkering Toward Accolades: School Gaming Under a Performance Accountability System

w12285 Charles Clotfelter
Elizabeth Glennie
Helen Ladd
Jacob Vigdor

Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina

w12282 Erica Field
Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School

w12251 Zeynep Hansen
Hideo Owan
Jie Pan

The Impact of Group Diversity on Performance and Knowledge Spillover -- An Experiment in a College Classroom

w12245 E. Han Kim
Adair Morse
Luigi Zingales

Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

w12207 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor

The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8

w12199 Thomas S. Dee
Brian A. Jacob

Do High School Exit Exams Influence Educational Attainment or Labor Market Performance?

w12180 Andreas Ammermueller
Jörn-Steffen Pischke

Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

w12179 Elizabeth Cascio
Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

w12176 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Alan Manning

Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales: What Do We Know?

w12145 Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery

w12139 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz
Ilyana Kuziemko

The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap

w12155 Thomas J. Kane
Jonah E. Rockoff
Douglas O. Staiger

What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City

w12093 Raghuram G. Rajan
Competitive Rent Preservation, Reform Paralysis, and the Persistence of Underdevelopment

w12078 David Card
Jesse Rothstein

Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

w12066 Roland G. Fryer
Steven D. Levitt

Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children

w12065 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
George Jakubson
Jeffrey Groen
Eric So
Joseph Price

Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students' Attrition and Graduation Probabilities?

w12064 Jeffrey Groen
George Jakubson
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Scott Condie
Albert Yung-Hsu Liu

Program Design and Student Outcomes in Graduate Education

w12056 Howard Bodenhorn
Single Parenthood and Childhood Outcomes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban South

w12047 Nora Gordon
Brian Knight

The Causes of Political Integration: An Application to School Districts

w12029 Christopher Avery
Caroline Hoxby
Clement Jackson
Kaitlin Burek
Glenn Pope
Mridula Raman

Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative

w12021 Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse M. Shapiro

Does Television Rot Your Brain? New Evidence from the Coleman Study

w12019 Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

Ugly Criminals

w12005 Joshua Angrist
Aimee Chin
Ricardo Godoy

Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?

w11998 Phil Oreopoulos
Mark Stabile
Randy Walld
Leslie Roos

Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health: An Analysis using Siblings and Twins

w11990 Donald S. Kenkel
Dean R. Lillard
Alan D. Mathios

The Roles of High School Completion and GED Receipt in Smoking and Obesity

w11970 Christiana Stoddard
Peter Kuhn

Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?

w11969 Victor Lavy
From Forced Busing to Free Choice in Public Schools: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of Individual and General Effects

w11965 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Parag Pathak
Alvin E. Roth
Tayfun Sonmez

Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism

w11936 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor

Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness

w11909 Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Jeffrey R. Kling
Greg J. Duncan
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment


2005
w11904 Abhijit Banerjee
Shawn Cole
Esther Duflo
Leigh Linden

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

w11880 Esther Duflo
Rema Hanna

Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

w11846 Richard J. Murnane
Richard R. Nelson

Improving the Performance of the Education Sector: The Valuable, Challenging, and Limited Role of Random Assignment Evaluations

w11844 Donald Boyd
Pamela Grossman
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement

w11812 Susanna Loeb
Margaret Bridges
Bruce Fuller
Russ Rumberger
Daphna Bassok

How Much is Too Much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Social and Cognitive Development

w11805 Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

w11802 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan

Choice and Competition in Local Education Markets

w11794 Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation

w11725 Eric Bettinger
Robert Slonim

Using Experimental Economics to Measure the Effects of a Natural Educational Experiment on Altruism

w11702 Jens Ludwig
Douglas L. Miller

Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

w11670 Claudia Uribe
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett
Marie Andrée Somers

Expanding School Enrollment by Subsidizing Private Schools: Lessons from Bogotá

w11660 Thomas S. Dee
Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement

w11636 David Neumark
Donna Rothstein

Do School-To-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?

w11604 Susan Dynarski
Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor

w11597 David N. Figlio
Cecilia Rouse

Do Accountability and Voucher Threats Improve Low-Performing Schools?

w11582 Michael Grossman
Education and Nonmarket Outcomes

w11494 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren

What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers

w11457 Richard B. Freeman
Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?

w11445 Alan Krueger
Jesse Rothstein
Sarah Turner

Race, Income, and College in 25 Years: The Continuing Legacy of Segregation and Discrimination

w11437 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Liang Zhang
Jared Levin

Crafting A Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students

w11414 Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Till von Wachter

Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

w11411 John Cawley
Chad D. Meyerhoefer
David Newhouse

The Impact of State Physical Education Requirements on Youth Physical Activity and Overweight

w11394 Orley Ashenfelter
William J. Collins
Albert Yoon

Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans

w11390 Philip J. Cook
Jens Ludwig

Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm

w11360 Benjamin F. Jones
The Burden of Knowledge and the 'Death of the Renaissance Man': Is Innovation Getting Harder?

w11359 Benjamin F. Jones
Age and Great Invention

w11337 Pinka Chatterji
Jeff DeSimone

Adolescent Drinking and High School Dropout

w11334 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Paul Torelli

An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

w11331 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Lance Lochner
Dimitriy V. Masterov

Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

w11325 Eric P. Bettinger
Bridget Terry Long

Addressing the Needs of Under-Prepared Students in Higher Education: Does College Remediation Work?

w11277 David N. Figlio
Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children and their Peers

w11260 Frank F. Furstenberg
Jr.
David Neumark

School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study

w11252 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Steven G. Rivkin
Gregory F. Branch

Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making With School Choice

w11216 Caroline M. Hoxby
Competition Among Public Schools: A Reply to Rothstein (2004)

w11215 Jesse Rothstein
Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? A Comment on Hoxby (2000)

w11195 David N. Figlio
Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap

w11194 David N. Figlio
Testing, Crime and Punishment

w11177 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher

Reading, Writing and Raisinets: Are School Finances Contributing to Children's Obesity?

w11154 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Daniel M. O'Brien
Steven G. Rivkin

The Market for Teacher Quality

w11142 James J. Heckman
Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation

w11124 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

w11113 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Ethan G. Lewis

Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws

w11100 David Cutler
Edward Glaeser

What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking and Other Health-Related Behaviors

w11086 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor

Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of "Resegregation" in Southern Schools

w11049 Roland G. Fryer
Steven D. Levitt

The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade

w11035 Jeff DeSimone
Amy M. Wolaver

Drinking and Academic Performance in High School

w11032 James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov

Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland

w11024 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Salvador Navarro

Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings


2004
w10971 Michael Kremer
Edward Miguel
Rebecca Thornton

Incentives to Learn

w10931 Ann Dryden Witte
Marisol Trowbridge

The Structure of Early Care and Education in the United States: Historical Evolution and International Comparisons

w10911 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereaux
Kjell Salvanes

Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

w10894 Bruce Sacerdote
What Happens When We Randomly Assign Children to Families?

w10879 Paul Willen
Igal Hendel
Joel Shapiro

Educational Opportunity and Income Inequality

w10871 Patrick Bayer
Fernando Ferreira
Robert McMillan

Tiebout Sorting, Social Multipliers and the Demand for School Quality

w10844 Eric D. Gould
Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman

Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

w10809 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Stephen G. Donald

The Effect of College Curriculum on Earnings: Accounting for Non-Ignorable Non-Response Bias

w10804 Christian A. L. Hilber
Christopher J. Mayer

Why Do Households Without Children Support Local Public Schools?

w10803 Christopher Avery
Mark Glickman
Caroline Hoxby
Andrew Metrick

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

w10758 Richard A. Jensen
Marie C. Thursby

Patent Licensing and the Research University

w10720 Sandra E. Black
Paul G. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education

w10713 Joshua Angrist
Eric Bettinger
Michael Kremer

Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia

w10711 Eric A. Hanushek
Charles Ka Yui Leung
Kuzey Yilmaz

Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational Mobility

w10695 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Liang Zhang

Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?

w10678 Victor Lavy
Do Gender Stereotypes Reduce Girls' Human Capital Outcomes? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

w10670 David Blau
Janet Currie

Preschool, Day Care, and Afterschool Care: Who's Minding the Kids?

w10666 Jesse Rothstein
Good Principals or Good Peers? Parental Valuation of School Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Effects of Inter-district Competition

w10658 Thomas Kane
Evaluating the Impact of the D.C. Tution Assistance Grant Program

w10622 Victor Lavy
Performance Pay and Teachers' Effort, Productivity and Grading Ethics

w10591 Eric A. Hanushek
Margaret E. Raymond

Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?

w10576 Barry Eichengreen
Pipat Luengnaruemitchai

Why Doesn't Asia Have Bigger Bond Markets?

w10575 Victor Lavy
Analia Schlosser

Targeted Remedial Education for Under-Performing Teenagers: Costs and Benefits

w10528 Christine Jolls
Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects

w10513 Lucia Breierova
Esther Duflo

The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter Less Than Mothers?

w10470 Susan M. Dynarski
Who Benefits from the Education Saving Incentives? Income, Educational Expectations, and the Value of the 529 and Coverdell

w10452 Katherine A. Magnuson
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

Does Prekindergarten Improve School Preparation and Performance?

w10435 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile

Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD

w10370 Eric Bettinger
Bridget Terry Long

Do College Instructors Matter? The Effects of Adjuncts and Graduate Assistants on Students' Interests and Success

w10369 Eric Bettinger
Bridget Terry Long

Shape Up or Ship Out: The Effects of Remediation on Students at Four-Year Colleges

w10366 David Card
Alan B. Krueger

Would the Elimination of Affirmative Action Affect Highly Qualified Minority Applicants? Evidence from California and Texas

w10357 Susan M. Dynarski
Tax Policy and Education Policy: Collision or Coordination? A Case Study of the 529 and Coverdell Saving Incentives

w10349 George J. Borjas
Do Foreign Students Crowd Out Native Students from Graduate Programs?

w10347 Dirk Krueger
Jessica Tjornhom Donohue

On the Distributional Consequences of Child Labor Legislation

w10315 Cecilia E. Rouse
Alan B. Krueger

Putting Computerized Instruction to the Test: A Randomized Evaluation of a "Scientifically-based" Reading Program

w10242 Eric Bettinger
How Financial Aid Affects Persistence


2003
w10164 Philip Oreopoulos
Marianne E. Page
Ann Huff Stevens

Does Human Capital Transfer from Parent to Child? The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling

w10155 Philip Oreopoulos
Do Dropouts Drop Out Too Soon? International Evidence From Changes in School-Leaving Laws

w10118 Kenneth Y. Chay
Patrick J. McEwan
Miguel Urquiola

The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions that Use Test Scores to Rank Schools

w10113 Julie Berry Cullen
Brian A. Jacob
Steven Levitt

The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

w10112 Katharine Abraham
Melissa A. Clark

Financial Aid and Students' College Decisions: Evidence from the District of Columbia's Tuition Assistance Grant Program

w10103 Roland Fryer
Glenn C. Loury
Tolga Yuret

Color-Blind Affirmative Action

w10091 Janet Currie
Matthew Neidell

Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't?

w10075 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence Katz

Mass Secondary Schooling and the State

w10066 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

w10008 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Miguel Urquiola

When Schools Compete, How Do They Compete? An Assessment of Chile's Nationwide School Voucher Program

w9963 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Karen E. Ross
Jeanne Ringel

Does Marijuana Use Impair Human Capital Formation?

w9958 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The "Virtues" of the Past: Education in the First Hundred Years of the New Republic

w9954 Susanna Loeb
Bruce Fuller
Sharon Lynn Kagan
Bidemi Carrol
Judith Carroll

Child Care in Poor Communities: Early Learning Effects of Type, Quality, and Stability

w9953 Donald Boyd
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb

The Draw of Home: How Teachers' Preferences for Proximity Disadvantage Urban Schools

w9878 Donald Boyd
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching Public School Teachers to Jobs: Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets

w9876 Michael Kremer
Dan M. Levy

Peer Effects and Alcohol Use Among College Students

w9871 Leemore S. Dafny
Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Markets: A Simple Model of Learning-By-Doing

w9853 Daniel Hamermesh
Amy M. Parker

Beauty in the Classroom: Professors' Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity

w9799 Dennis Epple
Richard Romano
Holger Sieg

The Practice and Proscription of Affirmative Action in Higher Education:An Equilibrium Analysis

w9770 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

w9769 Robert Kaestner
Won Chan Lee

The Effect of Welfare Reform on Prenatal Care and Birth Weight

w9766 Alexandra Cox Edwards
Manuelita Ureta

International Migration, Remittances, and Schooling: Evidence from El Salvador

w9738 Sherry Glied
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Health Inequality, Education and Medical Innovation

w9720 Bridget Terry Long
Does the Format of a Financial Aid Program Matter? The Effect of State In-Kind Tuition Subsidies

w9703 Thomas J. Kane
A Quasi-Experimental Estimate of the Impact of Financial Aid on College-Going

w9702 Scott Adams
David Neumark

Living Wage Effects: New and Improved Evidence

w9683 George M. Holmes
Jeff DeSimone
Nicholas G. Rupp

Does School Choice Increase School Quality?

w9653 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren

Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration and Juvenile Crime

w9641 Enrico Moretti
Human Capital Externalities in Cities

w9627 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Michael J. Rizzo
George H. Jakubson

Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?

w9603 Jeffrey A. Groen
Michelle J. White

In-State versus Out-of State Students: The Divergence of Interest between Public Universities and State Governments

w9588 Thomas S. Dee
Are There Civic Returns to Education?

w9584 Kevin Milligan
Enrico Moretti
Philip Oreopoulos

Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K.

w9553 Bridget Terry Long
The Impact of Federal Tax Credits for Higher Education Expenses

w9541 Julan Du
Shang-Jin Wei

Does Insider Trading Raise Market Volatility?

w9540 Dana P. Goldman
Neeraj Sood
Arleen Leibowitz

The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases

w9516 Michael J. Rizzo
Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Resident and Nonresident Tuition and Enrollment at Flagship State Universities

w9505 Jennifer Ma
Education Saving Incentives and Household Saving: Evidence from the 2000 TIAA-CREF Survey of Participant Finances

w9501 Gordon C. Winston
David J. Zimmerman

Peer Effects in Higher Education

w9495 James Heckman
Pedro Carneiro

Human Capital Policy

w9482 Christopher Avery
Caroline M. Hoxby

Do and Should Financial Aid Packages Affect Students' College Choices?

w9448 Cameron Howell
Sarah E. Turner

Legacies in Black and White: The Racial Composition of the Legacy Pool

w9438 Lee Branstetter
Yoshiaki Nakamura

Is Japan's Innovative Capacity in Decline?

w9418 Alan B. Krueger
Pei Zhu

Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment

w9414 Brian A. Jacob
Steven D. Levitt

Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory

w9413 Brian A. Jacob
Steven D. Levitt

Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating


2002
w9400 Susan Dynarski
The Consequences of Merit Aid

w9389 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy

The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials

w9386 Yishay Yafeh
An International Perspective of Japan's Corporate Groups and their Prospects

w9360 Janet Currie
Enrico Moretti

Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data

w9358 Joseph G. Altonji
Todd E. Elder
Christopher R. Taber

An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schools

w9354 Dennis Epple
Richard Romano

Educational Vouchers and Cream Skimming

w9319 David N. Figlio
Joshua Winicki

Food for Thought: The Effects of School Accountability Plans on School Nutrition

w9316 Enrico Moretti
Human Capital Spillovers in Manufacturing: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions

w9310 Sandra E. Black
Amir Sufi

Who Goes to College? Differential Enrollment by Race and Family Background

w9307 David N. Figlio
Lawrence S. Getzler

Accountability , Ability and Disability: Gaming the System

w9263 Joshua D. Angrist
Kevin Lang

How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

w9234 Raquel Fernandez
Alessandra Fogli
Claudia Olivetti

Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labor and Education Choices

w9228 David M. Linsenmeier
Harvey S. Rosen
Cecilia Elena Rouse

Financial Aid Packages and College Enrollment Decisions: An Econometric Case Study

w9225 Peter Cappelli
Why Do Employers Pay For College?

w9205 Christopher Jepsen
Steven Rivkin

What is the Tradeoff Between Smaller Classes and Teacher Quality?

w9185 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Frank R. Lichtenberg

The Effect of Education on Medical Technology Adoption: Are the More Educated More Likely to Use New Drugs

w9180 Sean P. Corcoran
William N. Evans
Robert S. Schwab

Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers 1957-1992

w9172 H. Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

w9145 Vincent Hogan
Roberto Rigobon

Using Heteroscedasticity to Estimate the Returns to Education

w9108 Enrico Moretti
Estimating the Social Return to Higher Education: Evidence From Longitudinal and Repeated Cross-Sectional Data

w9090 Austan Goolsbee
Jonathan Guryan

The Impact of Internet Subsidies in Public Schools

w9088 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Randy A. Ehrenberg
Christopher L. Smith
Liang Zhang

Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?

w9071 Eric A. Hanushek
The Long Run Importance of School Quality

w9055 Pedro Carneiro
James J. Heckman

The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

w9054 Lisa Barrow
Cecilia Elena Rouse

Using Market Valuation to Assess Public School Spending

w9044 Sarah E. Turner
John Bound

Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans

w9040 Eric A. Hanushek
The Failure of Input-based Schooling Policies

w9028 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Ming-Ching Luoh

Gender Differences in Completed Schooling

w9025 Peter Arcidiacono
Sean Nicholson

Peer Effects in Medical School

w8986 Adriana Lleras-Muney
The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States

w8975 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Steven D. Levitt

Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School

w8968 Brian A. Jacob
Accountability, Incentives and Behavior: The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in the Chicago Public Schools

w8965 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market

w8964 Brian A. Jacob
Where the boys aren't: Non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education

w8949 Eric A. Hanushek
Javier A. Luque

Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World

w8918 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren

Remedial Education and Student Achievement: A Regression-Discontinuity Analysis

w8916 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reform Efforts in Chicago

w8898 Peter Temin
Teacher Quality and the Future of America

w8885 Esther Duflo
Emmanuel Saez

The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

w8875 Alan B. Krueger
Economic Considerations and Class Size

w8873 Caroline M. Hoxby
School Choice and School Productivity (or Could School Choice be a Tide that Lifts All Boats?)

w8861 Daniel B. Klaff
Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities

w8855 Caroline M. Hoxby
The Cost of Accountability

w8840 Pedro Carneiro
Karsten T. Hansen
James J. Heckman

Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies

w8815 Lance Lochner
Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Human Capital Formation with Endogenous Credit Constraints

w8799 Eric A. Hanushek
Publicly Provided Education

w8792 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Christopher L. Smith

Within State Transitions from 2-Year to 4-Year Public Institutions

w8741 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Steven G. Rivkin

New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement


2001
w8605 Lance Lochner
Enrico Moretti

The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports

w8599 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Steven G. Rivkin

Why Public Schools Lose Teachers

w8580 Raquel Fernandez
Nezih Guner
John Knowles

Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality

w8563 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Were Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective? An Analysis from 1915 to 1939

w8555 John Bound
Jeffrey Groen
Gabor Kezdi
Sarah Turner

Trade in University Training: Cross-State Variation in the Production and Use of College-Educated Labor

w8502 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Jacob M. Markman
Steven G. Rivkin

Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement?

w8479 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Steven G. Rivkin

Disruption versus Tiebout Improvement: The Costs and Benefits of Switching Schools

w8432 Thomas S. Dee
Teachers, Race and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment

w8378 Orley Ashenfelter
David Card

Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?

w8377 Raquel Fernandez
Education, Segregation and Marital Sorting: Theory and an Application to UK Data

w8355 Thomas J. Nechyba
Centralization, Fiscal Federalism and Private School Attendance

w8345 Jonathan Guryan
Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates

w8343 Joshua Angrist
Eric Bettinger
Erik Bloom
Elizabeth King
Michael Kremer

Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment

w8307 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Christopher L. Smith

The Sources and Uses of Annual Giving at Private Research Universities

w8156 Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

Improving School Accountability Measures

w8101 Raquel Fernandez
Sorting, Education and Inequality

w8080 Bruce Sacerdote
Edward L. Glaeser

Education and Religion


2000
w8055 David N. Figlio
Marianne E. Page

School Choice and the Distributional Effects of Ability Tracking: Does Separation Increase Equality?

w8019 David N. Figlio
Maurice E. Lucas

What's in a Grade? School Report Cards and House Prices

w8018 Paul Glewwe
Michael Kremer
Sylvie Moulin
Eric Zitzewitz

Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs: The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya

w7999 Charles T. Clotfelter
Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities

w7990 David Figlio
Jens Ludwig

Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors

w7986 Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education

w7985 David N. Figlio
Maurice E. Lucas

Do High Grading Standards Affect Student Performance?

w7956 Dennis Epple
David Figlio
Richard Romano

Competition Between Private and Public Schools: Testing Stratification and Pricing Predictions

w7949 Bruce Sacerdote
The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes

w7888 Julie Berry Cullen
Brian Jacob
Steven Levitt

The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools

w7886 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
John L. Cheslock
Julia Epifantseva

Paying our Presidents: What do Trustees Value?

w7875 Julian R. Betts
Jeff Grogger

The Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry-Level Earnings

w7874 Anne Case
I-Fen Lin
Sara McLanahan

Educational Attainment in Blended Families

w7860 Esther Duflo
Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment

w7854 Dennis Epple
Elizabeth Newlon
Richard Romano

Ability Tracking, School Competition, and the Distribution of Educational Benefits

w7831 Joseph G. Altonji
Todd E. Elder
Christopher R. Taber

Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools

w7769 David Card
Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems

w7756 Susan Dynarski
Hope for Whom? Financial Aid for the Middle Class and Its Impact on College Attendance

w7735 Esther Duflo
Emmanuel Saez

Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan: The Influence of Colleagues' Choices

w7733 David Neumark
Mary Joyce

An Introduction to School-To-Work Programs in the NLSY97: How Prevalent are They, and Which Youths do They Serve?

w7719 David Neumark
Mary Joyce

Evaluating School-To-Work Programs Using the New NLSY

w7658 David Card
Thomas Lemieux

Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?

w7656 Alan Krueger
Diane Whitmore

The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence from Project STAR

w7655 David Card
Thomas Lemieux

Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

w7635 George J. Borjas
Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates

w7546 Raghuram G. Rajan
Luigi Zingales

The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy: A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms

w7508 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

Sorting and Long-Run Inequality

w7469 Bruce Sacerdote
Peer Effects with Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates

w7457 Orley Ashenfelter
Colm Harmon
Hessel Oosterbeek

A Review of Estimates of the Schooling/Earnings Relationship, with Tests for Publication Bias


1999
w7452 John Bound
Sarah E. Turner

Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?

w7444 Daron Acemoglu
Joshua Angrist

How Large are the Social Returns to Education? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

w7424 Joshua Angrist
Victor Lavy

New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning

w7422 Susan M. Dynarski
Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion

w7399 Anne Case
Motohiro Yogo

Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Schools in South Africa

w7290 Charles T. Clotfelter
Are Whites Still "Fleeing"? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987-1996

h0119 Claudia Goldin
A Brief History of Education in the United States

w7239 Thomas J. Nechyba
A Model of Multiple Districts and Private Schools: The Role of Mobility, Targeting, and Private School Vouchers

w7235 Thomas J. Kane
Cecilia Elena Rouse
Douglas Staiger

Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported

w7172 Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett
John H. Tyler

Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond

w7132 Roland Benabou
Tax and Education Policy in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy: What Levels f Redistribution Maximize Growth and Efficiency?

w7121 John F. Helliwell
Robert D. Putnam

Education and Social Capital

w7111 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

Equity and Resources: An Analysis of Education Finance Systems

w7082 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Steven G. Rivkin

Do Higher Salaries Buy Better Teachers?

w6976 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Jaroslava K. Mykula

Do Indirect Costs Matter?

w6943 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Early Test Scores, Socioeconomic Status and Future Outcomes

w6911 Caroline M. Hoxby
The Productivity of Schools and Other Local Public Goods Providers

w6902 Orley Ashenfelter
Cecilia Rouse

Schooling, Intelligence, and Income in America: Cracks in the Bell Curve


1998
w6781 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy

Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools

w6766 David Card
A. Abigail Payne

School Finance Reform, the Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of SAT Scores

w6718 Thomas Lemieux
David Card

Education, Earnings, and the "Canadian G.I. Bill"

w6691 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Steven G. Rivkin

Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

w6690 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Steven G. Rivkin

Does Special Education Raise Academic Achievement for Students with Disabilities?

w6537 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940

w6439 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940

w6385 Stephen V. Cameron
James J. Heckman

Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts

w6362 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start


1997
w6198 Jong-Wha Lee
Robert J. Barro

Schooling Quality in a Cross Section of Countries

w6144 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Why the United States Led in Education: Lessons from Secondary School Expansion, 1910 to 1940

w6106 Orley Ashenfelter
Cecilia Rouse

Income, Schooling, and Ability: Evidence from a New Sample of Identical Twins

w5251 Lars E.O. Svensson
Optimal Inflation Targets, `Conservative' Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts

w4032 Martin Feldstein
College Scholarship Rules and Private Saving

w6051 Alan B. Krueger
Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions

w6003 Jeff Grogger
Local Violence, Educational Attainment, and Teacher Pay

w5995 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

The Determinants of Public Education Expenditures: Evidence from the States, 1950-1990

w5964 Cecilia Elena Rouse
Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

w5888 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy

Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement


1996
w5805 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Does Head Start Help Hispanic Children?

w4798 Roland Benabou
Education, Income Distribution and Growth: The Local Connection

w5733 David Neumark
Rosella Gardecki

Women Helping Women? Role-Model and Mentoring Effects on Female Ph.D. Student in Economics

w5667 B. Douglas Bernheim
Daniel M. Garrett

The Determinants and Consequences of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Households

w5642 Thomas J. Nechyba
Public School Finance in a General Equilibrium Tiebout World: Equalization Programs, Peer Effects and Private School Vouchers

w5583 Roland Benabou
Unequal Societies

w5548 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin
Lori L. Taylor

Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

w5547 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

Understanding the 20th Century Growth in U.S. School Spending

w5521 Robert Kaestner
Are Brothers Really Better? Sibling Sex Composition and Educational Achievement Revisited

w5450 David Card
Alan B. Krueger

Labor Market Effects of School Quality: Theory and Evidence


1995
w5399 Eric A. Hanushek
Dongwook Kim

Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

w5369 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

Education Finance Reform and Investment in Human Capital: Lessons from California

w5353 Derek Neal
The Effect of Catholic Secondary Schooling on Educational Attainment

w5331 Susanna Loeb
John Bound

The Effect of Measured School Inputs on Academic Achievement: Evidence from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Birth Cohorts

w5288 James Heckman
Anne Layne-Farrar
Petra Todd

The Schooling Quality-Earnings Relationship: Using Economic Theory to Interpret Functional Forms Consistent with the Evidence

w5240 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Race, Children's Cognitive Achievement and The Bell Curve

w4070 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Panagiotis G. Mavros

Do Doctoral Students' Financial Support Patterns Affect Their Times-to-Degree and Completion Probabilities

w5164 Thomas J. Kane
Rising Public College Tuition and College Entry: How Well Do Public Subsidies Promote Access to College?

w4669 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Daniel D. Goldhaber
Dominic J. Brewer

Do Teachers' Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Matter?: Evidence from NELS88

w5072 Joseph G. Altonji
Thomas A. Dunn

The Effects of School and Family Characteristics on the Return to Education

w5030 Christopher J. Ruhm
Is High School Employment Consumption or Investment?


1994
w4949 William N. Evans
Edward Montgomery

Education and Health: Where There's Smoke There's an Instrument

w4883 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

Income Distribution and Public Education: A Dynamic Quantitative Evaluation of School Finance Reform

w4832 David Card
Earnings, Schooling, and Ability Revisited

w4831 Alan Krueger
Cecilia Rouse

New Evidence on Workplace Education

w4762 Claudia Goldin
How America Graduated from High School: 1910 to 1960


1993
w4483 David Card
Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling

w4409 Hope Corman
Stephen Chaikind

The Effect of Low Birthweight on the Health, Behavior, and School Performance of School-Aged Children


1991
w3714 Joseph G. Altonji
The Demand for and Return to Education When Education Outcomes are Uncertain


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