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NBER Papers in the Economics of Education

NBER Papers in the Economics of Education

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2010
w15740 Joshua D. Angrist
Susan M. Dynarski
Thomas J. Kane
Parag A. Pathak
Christopher R. Walters

Who Benefits from KIPP?

w15729 Peter Arcidiacono
V. Joseph Hotz
Songman Kang

Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals

w15728 Betsey Stevenson
Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

w15725 Adam Isen
Betsey Stevenson

Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility

w15722 C. Kirabo Jackson
A Stitch in Time: The Effects of a Novel Incentive-Based High-School Intervention on College Outcomes

w15715 Brian A. Jacob
Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?

w15655 Brian A. Jacob
The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence from Public Schooling

w15707 Francine D. Blau
Janet M. Currie
Rachel T.A. Croson
Donna K. Ginther

Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial

w15683 Brian A. Jacob
Tamara Wilder

Educational Expectations and Attainment

w15672 Thomas S Dee
Brian A. Jacob

Rational Ignorance in Education: A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism

w15664 Flavio Cunha
James Heckman
Susanne Schennach

Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation


2009
w15606 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
George H. Jakubson
Mirinda L. Martin
Joyce B. Main
Thomas Eisenberg

Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines

w15600 Victor Lavy
Olmo Silva
Felix Weinhardt

The Good, the Bad and the Average: Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools

w15566 John Bound
Michael Lovenheim
Sarah Turner

Why Have College Completion Rates Declined? An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources

w15549 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua Angrist
Susan Dynarski
Thomas J. Kane
Parag Pathak

Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots

w15531 Thomas Dee
Brian Jacob

The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement

w15522 Ofer Malamud
Discovering One's Talent: Learning from Academic Specialization

w15491 Peter H. Lindert
Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance

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

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

w15148 Jason M. Fletcher
Steven F. Lehrer

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

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

w15080 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Dmitriy Stolyarov

Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

w15078 Kenneth Y. Chay
Jonathan Guryan
Bhashkar Mazumder

Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth

w15073 David Galenson
Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

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

w14974 Dahlia K. Remler
Elda Pema

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

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?

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

w14884 Eric D. Gould
Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman

Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

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

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

w14801 Christopher Blattman
Edward Miguel

Civil War

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?

w14723 David S. Lee
Thomas Lemieux

Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics

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

w14695 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman

The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

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


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