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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in the Economics of Education


2012
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

Aligning Student, Parent, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Houston Public Schools

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 at IIT-Delhi

w17722 C. Kirabo Jackson
Do High-School Teachers Really Matter?

w17720 Scott A. Imberman
Adriana D. Kugler

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


2011
w17713 Douglas Almond
Bhashkar Mazumder
Reyn van Ewijk

Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

w17710 David J. Deming
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

w17704 Alexander M. Gelber
Adam Isen

Children’s Schooling and Parents’ Investment in Children: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study

w17699 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Jonah E. Rockoff

The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

w17677 Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen
Glen R. Waddell

Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?

w17646 John P. Papay
Martin R. West
Jon B. Fullerton
Thomas J. Kane

Does Practice-Based Teacher Preparation Increase Student Achievement? Early Evidence from the Boston Teacher Residency

w17637 Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen
Glen R. Waddell

Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access

w17633 Martha J. Bailey
Susan M. Dynarski

Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

w17632 Will Dobbie
Roland G. Fryer
Jr

Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City

w17610 Jesse Rothstein
Nathan Wozny

Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap

w17591 Eric A. Hanushek
Susanne Link
Ludger Woessmann

Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

w17572 Ruben Durante
Giovanna Labartino
Roberto Perotti

Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia

w17554 Paul W. Glewwe
Eric A. Hanushek
Sarah D. Humpage
Renato Ravina

School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010

w17541 Marianne Bertrand
Jessica Pan

The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior

w17538 Kenneth T. Whelan
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Kevin F. Hallock
Ronald L. Seeber

Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program

w17533 Susan Dynarski
Joshua M. Hyman
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion

w17527 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Andrei Shleifer

Teaching Practices and Social Capital

w17508 Raquel Fernández
Joyce Cheng Wong

The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

w17504 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Lei Zhang

General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

w17494 Roland G. Fryer
Jr

Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston

w17487 Benjamin F. Jones
The Human Capital Stock: A Generalized Approach

w17486 John H. Tyler
If You Build It Will They Come? Teacher Use of Student Performance Data on a Web-Based Tool

w17478 Harold E. Cuffe
William T. Harbaugh
Jason M. Lindo
Giancarlo Musto
Glen R. Waddell

Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living

w17465 Daniel Gottlieb
Kent Smetters

Grade Non-Disclosure

w17438 David J. Deming
Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment

w17435 Lance Lochner
Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Credit Constraints in Education

w17412 Peter Nurnberg
Morton Schapiro
David Zimmerman

Educational “Goodwill”: Measuring the Intangible Assets at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities

w17408 Alan I. Barreca
Jason M. Lindo
Glen R. Waddell

Heaping-Induced Bias in Regression-Discontinuity Designs

w17402 Will Dobbie
Roland G. Fryer
Jr

The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes: Evidence from Teach For America

w17381 Robert Fairlie
Florian Hoffmann
Philip Oreopoulos

A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

w17378 James J. Heckman
Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

w17364 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan

Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification

w17337 Elisabetta Gentile
Scott A. Imberman

Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior

w17332 Joshua D. Angrist
Parag A. Pathak
Christopher R. Walters

Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

w17286 Will Dobbie
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement: Evidence from New York City

w17264 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua D. Angrist
Parag A. Pathak

The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

w17243 Tara Béteille
Demetra Kalogrides
Susanna Loeb

Stepping Stones: Principal Career Paths and School Outcomes

w17235 Ilyana Kuziemko
Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on their Children?

w17225 C. Kirabo Jackson
School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets: Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina

w17218 Philippe Belley
Marc Frenette
Lance Lochner

Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?

w17194 Gadi Barlevy
Derek Neal

Pay for Percentile

w17185 Ama Baafra Abeberese
Todd J. Kumler
Leigh L. Linden

Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

w17177 Susanna Loeb
Demetra Kalogrides
Tara Béteille

Effective Schools: Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention

w17176 Matthew Ronfeldt
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement

w17165 Richard Akresh
Eric V. Edmonds

Residential Rivalry and Constraints on the Availability of Child Labor

w17159 Stacy Dale
Alan B. Krueger

Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data

w17120 John P. Papay
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions: The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes

w17155 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Nora E. Gordon
Sarah J. Reber

Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South

w17119 Eric P. Bettinger
Brent J. Evans
Devin G. Pope

Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam

w17112 John P. Papay
John B. Willett
Richard J. Murnane

High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis

w17093 Ran Abramitzky
Victor Lavy

How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistribution Policies and in Returns

w17089 Sa A. Bui
Steven G. Craig
Scott A. Imberman

Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement

w17085 Philip DeCicca
Justin D. Smith

The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education: Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment

w17081 John Cawley
Christopher Ruhm

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17039 Lance Lochner
Enrico Moretti

Estimating and Testing Non-Linear Models Using Instrumental Variables

w16973 Daniel M. Hungerman
The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

w16939 Willa Friedman
Michael Kremer
Edward Miguel
Rebecca Thornton

Education as Liberation?

w16914 Ofer Malamud
Cristian Pop-Eleches

School Tracking and Access to Higher Education Among Disadvantaged Groups

w16886 Cristian Pop-Eleches
Miguel Urquiola

Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses

w16885 Victor Lavy
What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

w16881 Eric Bettinger
Rachel Baker

The Effects of Student Coaching in College: An Evaluation of a Randomized Experiment in Student Mentoring

w16880 Steve Cicala
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Jörg L. Spenkuch

A Roy Model of Social Interactions

w16877 Eric S. Taylor
John H. Tyler

The Effect of Evaluation on Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers

w16876 Wehn-Jyuan Tsai
Jin-Tan Liu
Shin-Yi Chou
Michael Grossman

Intergeneration Transfer of Human Capital: Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

w16873 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of "No Child Left Behind" on Children's Obesity

w16869 Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major

w16865 Scott E. Carrell
Bruce I. Sacerdote
James E. West

From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects

w16856 Victor Lavy
Alexander Zablotsky

Mother’s Schooling and Fertility under Low Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

w16850 Roland G. Fryer
Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools

w16846 Michael Baker
Industrial Actions in Schools: Strikes and Student Achievement

w16841 James J. Heckman
The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality

w16830 Jishnu Das
Stefan Dercon
James Habyarimana
Pramila Krishnan
Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

w16822 Mathilde Almlund
Angela Lee Duckworth
James J. Heckman
Tim D. Kautz

Personality Psychology and Economics

w16817 C. Kirabo Jackson
Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection: Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago

w16802 Mimi Engel
Brian A. Jacob

New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

w16783 Parag A. Pathak
Tayfun Sönmez

School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation

w16751 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Consumption and Income Poverty over the Business Cycle

w16746 Vilsa E. Curto
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED

w16745 Randall Reback
Jonah Rockoff
Heather L. Schwartz

Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under NCLB

w16722 Lance Lochner
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

w16711 Dalton Conley
Emily Rauscher

The Equal Environments Assumption in the Post-Genomic Age: Using Misclassified Twins to Estimate Bias in Heritability Models

w16710 Derek Neal
The Design of Performance Pay in Education

w16663 Julie Berry Cullen
Mark C. Long
Randall Reback

Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan

w16659 Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman
Dhiman Das

Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training


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