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NBER Papers in the Economics of Education


2013
w19060 Robert W. Fairlie
Jonathan Robinson

Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren

w19049 Nora E. Gordon
High School Graduation in the Context of Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy and Income Inequality: The Last Half Century

w19035 Liran Einav
Jonathan D. Levin

The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis

w19031 Scott E. Carrell
Bruce Sacerdote

Late Interventions Matter Too: The Case of College Coaching New Hampshire

w19014 Sara Heller
Harold A. Pollack
Roseanna Ander
Jens Ludwig

Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment

w19007 Richard Blundell
Monica Costa Dias
Costas Meghir
Jonathan M. Shaw

Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform

w19002 Costas Meghir
Mårten Palme
Emilia Simeonova

Education, Cognition and Health: Evidence from a Social Experiment

w18988 Elizabeth Davidson
Randall Reback
Jonah E. Rockoff
Heather L. Schwartz

Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States’ Implementation of NCLB

w18987 Sandra E. Black
Aline Bütikofer
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout

w18981 Umut M. Dur
Scott Duke Kominers
Parag A. Pathak
Tayfun Sönmez

The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice

w18979 Fatih Guvenen
Michelle Rendall

Women's Emancipation Through Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis

w18945 Todd Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

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

w18889 Lisa Barrow
Amy Claessens
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

The Impact of Chicago’s Small High School Initiative

w18859 Gary Solon
Steven J. Haider
Jeffrey Wooldridge

What Are We Weighting For?

w18848 Courtney A. Collins
Li Gan

Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition

w18846 David N. Figlio
Jonathan Guryan
Krzysztof Karbownik
Jeffrey Roth

The Effects of Poor Neonatal Health on Children's Cognitive Development

w18817 Loreto Reyes
Jorge Rodríguez
Sergio S. Urzúa

Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Postsecondary Degrees: Evidence from Chile

w18832 Jerome Adda
Christian Dustmann
Costas Meghir
Jean-Marc Robin

Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills

w18818 Diether W. Beuermann
Julian P. Cristia
Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo
Santiago Cueto
Ofer Malamud

Home Computers and Child Outcomes: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru

w18812 Barbara L. Wolfe
Jason Fletcher

Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity

w18809 Paula Stephan
Chiara Franzoni
Giuseppe Scellato

Choice of Country by the Foreign Born for PhD and Postdoctoral Study: A Sixteen-Country Perspective

w18799 Peter Arcidiacono
Esteban M. Aucejo
V. Joseph Hotz

University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California

w18791 Philip J. Cook
Songman Kang

Birthdays, Schooling, and Crime: New Evidence on the Dropout-Crime Nexus

w18782 Brant Abbott
Giovanni Gallipoli
Costas Meghir
Giovanni L. Violante

Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium

w18749 Michael F. Lovenheim
Emily G. Owens

Does Federal Financial Aid Affect College Enrollment? Evidence from Drug Offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998

w18745 Brian Jacob
Brian McCall
Kevin M. Stange

College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students’ Preferences for Consumption?

w18744 Massimo Anelli
Giovanni Peri

The Long Run Effects of High-School Class Gender Composition

w18721 Jason Fletcher
Adalbert Mayer

Tracing the Effects of Guaranteed Admission through the College Process: Evidence from a Policy Discontinuity in the Texas 10% Plan

w18710 Susan Dynarski
Judith Scott-Clayton

Financial Aid Policy: Lessons from Research

w18707 Susan Dynarski
Judith Scott-Clayton
Mark Wiederspan

Simplifying Tax Incentives and Aid for College: Progress and Prospects

w18701 Richard J. Murnane
U.S High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations

w18665 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna

Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics


2012
w18663 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna

Revealed Preferences for Journals: Evidence from Page Limits

w18662 Joshua Angrist
Miikka Rokkanen

Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff

w18649 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor

Algebra for 8th Graders: Evidence on its Effects from 10 North Carolina Districts

w18648 Robert Bifulco
Jason M. Fletcher
Sun Jung Oh
Stephen L. Ross

Do Classmate Effects Fade Out?

w18626 Caroline M. Hoxby
Endowment Management Based on a Positive Model of the University

w18624 C. Kirabo Jackson
Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina

w18605 Daphna Bassok
Maria Fitzpatrick
Susanna Loeb

Does State Preschool Crowd-Out Private Provision? The Impact of Universal Preschool on the Childcare Sector in Oklahoma and Georgia

w18586 Caroline M. Hoxby
Christopher Avery

The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students

w18581 James J. Heckman
Rodrigo Pinto
Peter A. Savelyev

Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

w18576 Thomas Buser
Muriel Niederle
Hessel Oosterbeek

Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices

w18568 Jason A. Grissom
Demetra Kalogrides
Susanna Loeb

Using Student Test Scores to Measure Principal Performance

w18551 Philip Oreopoulos
Ryan Dunn

Information and College Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

w18538 Britta Augsburg
Ralph De Haas
Heike Harmgart
Costas Meghir

Microfinance, Poverty and Education

w18535 Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Douglas Almond

Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net

w18530 Maria D. Fitzpatrick
Damon Jones

Higher Education, Merit-Based Scholarships and Post-Baccalaureate Migration

w18525 Andrew A. Samwick
Donating the Voucher: An Alternative Tax Treatment of Private School Enrollment

w18523 Peter Arcidiacono
Esteban Aucejo
Patrick Coate
V. Joseph Hotz

Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209

w18514 Marika Cabral
Caroline Hoxby

The Hated Property Tax: Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts

w18493 Elizabeth M. Caucutt
Lance Lochner

Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family

w18487 Stephen B. Billings
David J. Deming
Jonah E. Rockoff

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

w18485 Steven J. Haider
Kathleen M. McGarry

Parental Investments in College and Later Cash Transfers

w18484 Magnus Carlsson
Gordon B. Dahl
Dan-Olof Rooth

The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills

w18475 Gabriella Conti
Andrea Galeotti
Gerrit Mueller
Stephen Pudney

Popularity

w18464 Prashant Bharadwaj
Giacomo De Giorgi
David Hansen
Christopher Neilson

The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

w18457 Judith Scott-Clayton
Peter M. Crosta
Clive R. Belfield

Improving the Targeting of Treatment: Evidence from College Remediation

w18439 Scott A. Imberman
Michael F. Lovenheim

Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System

w18437 William N. Evans
Craig Garthwaite
Timothy J. Moore

The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of the Emergence of Crack Cocaine Markets

w18436 Ian Fillmore
Devin G. Pope

The Impact of Time Between Cognitive Tasks on Performance: Evidence from Advanced Placement Exams

w18430 Victor Lavy
Edith Sand

The Friends Factor: How Students’ Social Networks Affect Their Academic Achievement and Well-Being?

w18429 Anna Aizer
Flávio Cunha

The Production of Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility

w18422 Anna Aizer
Laura Stroud
Stephen Buka

Maternal Stress and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Siblings

w18419 Jesse Rothstein
Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters

w18412 Justine S. Hastings
Brigitte C. Madrian
William L. Skimmyhorn

Financial Literacy, Financial Education and Economic Outcomes

w18389 Jeffrey R. Brown
Stephen G. Dimmock
Scott Weisbenner

The Supply of and Demand for Charitable Donations to Higher Education

w18369 Victor Lavy
Expanding School Resources and Increasing Time on Task: Effects of a Policy Experiment in Israel on Student Academic Achievement and Behavior

w18343 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Latika Chaudhary

The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit College Education

w18341 John Cawley
David Frisvold
Chad Meyerhoefer

The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children

w18328 Judith Scott-Clayton
Olga Rodriguez

Development, Discouragement, or Diversion? New Evidence on the Effects of College Remediation

w18327 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Lead Policy and Academic Performance: Insights from Massachusetts

w18324 Justine S. Hastings
Christopher A. Neilson
Seth D. Zimmerman

The Effect of School Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Outcomes

w18302 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Allison Shertzer

Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schools Laws on Immigrants' Education

w18300 Jeffrey Brown
Chichun Fang
Francisco Gomes

Risk and Returns to Education

w18277 Glenn Ellison
Ashley Swanson

Heterogeneity in High Math Achievement Across Schools: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions

w18237 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Steven D. Levitt
John List
Sally Sadoff

Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment

w18201 Kevin Lang
Russell Weinstein

Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges

w18197 Aimee Chin
N. Meltem Daysal
Scott A. Imberman

Impact of Bilingual Education Programs on Limited English Proficient Students and Their Peers: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Texas

w18196 Michael L. Anderson
The Benefits of College Athletic Success: An Application of the Propensity Score Design with Instrumental Variables

w18189 Hai Fang
Karen N. Eggleston
John A. Rizzo
Scott Rozelle
Richard J. Zeckhauser

The Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law

w18185 Silke J. Forbes
Nora E. Gordon

When Educators Are the Learners: Private Contracting by Public Schools

w18183 Evan Borkum
Fang He
Leigh L. Linden

The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India

w18165 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List
Susanne Neckermann
Sally Sadoff

The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

w18161 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor

The Aftermath of Accelerating Algebra: Evidence from a District Policy Initiative

w18150 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan
Diana B. Moreira

Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

w18145 Costas Meghir
Mårten Palme
Marieke Schnabel

The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective

w18129 Suresh Naidu
Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

w18115 Harounan Kazianga
Dan Levy
Leigh L. Linden
Matt Sloan

The Effects of “Girl-Friendly” Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso

w18100 James J. Heckman
Junjian Yi

Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

w18086 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Katrine V. Løken
Kjell G. Salvanes

Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

w18075 Michael F. Lovenheim
C. Lockwood Reynolds

The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom

w18068 Rodney J. Andrews
Jing Li
Michael F. Lovenheim

Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas

w18067 Chiara Franzoni
Giuseppe Scellato
Paula Stephan

Foreign Born Scientists: Mobility Patterns for Sixteen Countries

w18039 Dana Burde
Leigh L. Linden

The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan

w18038 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Douglas O. Staiger

Knowledge, Tests, and Fadeout in Educational Interventions

w18016 Naci H. Mocan
Colin Cannonier

Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone

w18010 Donald Boyd
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

Measuring Test Measurement Error: A General Approach

w17990 Thomas Dee
School Turnarounds: Evidence from the 2009 Stimulus

w17986 Dennis N. Epple
Richard Romano

On The Political Economy Of Educational Vouchers

w17985 Joseph G. Altonji
Erica Blom
Costas Meghir

Heterogeneity in Human Capital Investments: High School Curriculum, College Major, and Careers

w17979 Davide Cantoni
Noam Yuchtman

Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution

w17960 Timothy N. Bond
Kevin Lang

The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results

w17951 Hilary W. Hoynes
Douglas L. Miller
Jessamyn Schaller

Who Suffers During Recessions?

w17939 Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
Michael Kremer

School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools

w17932 Costas Meghir
Mårten Palme
Emilia Simeonova

Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment

w17922 Martha J. Bailey
Brad Hershbein
Amalia R. Miller

The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages

w17892 Benjamin A. Olken
Junko Onishi
Susan Wong

Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

w17861 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid

w17859 C. Kirabo Jackson
Do College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes?

w17834 Susan Dynarski
Mark Wiederspan

Student Aid Simplification: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

w17827 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Claudia Goldin

Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges

w17820 Daron Acemoglu
David Autor

What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology

w17811 Judith Scott-Clayton
Information Constraints and Financial Aid Policy

w17803 Gregory F. Branch
Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals

w17776 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Ebonya L. Washington

Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965

w17752 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Richard T. Holden

Multitasking, Learning, and Incentives: A Cautionary Tale

w17744 Judith Scott-Clayton
What Explains Trends in Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2009?

w17730 Eric A. Hanushek
Kuzey Yilmaz

Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

w17727 Verónica C. Frisancho Robles
Kala Krishna

Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch

w17722 C. Kirabo Jackson
Teacher Quality at the High-School Level: The Importance of Accounting for Tracks

w17720 Scott A. Imberman
Adriana D. Kugler

The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Student Performance: Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program


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