NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Economics of Education Archive

NBER Papers in the Economics of Education


2007
w13687 Edward L. Glaeser
Cass R. Sunstein

Extremism and Social Learning

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

w13539 David Cutler
Winnie Fung
Michael Kremer
Monica Singhal
Tom Vogl

Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

w13534 Robert Moffitt
Estimating Marginal Returns to Higher Education in the UK

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

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

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

w13336 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men

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

w13252 Janet Currie
Eric Hanushek
E. Megan Kahn
Matthew Neidell
Steven Rivkin

Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

w13237 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men

w13236 Patrick Bayer
Fernando Ferreira
Robert McMillan

A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

w13225 Alvin E. Roth
Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

w13195 James J. Heckman
The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

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

w13184 Robert W. Fogel
Capitalism and Democracy in 2040: Forecasts and Speculations

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

w13113 Inas Rashad
Sara Markowitz

Incentives in Obesity and Health Insurance

w13070 Una Okonkwo Osili
Bridget Terry Long

Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria

w13039 Guido Imbens
Thomas Lemieux

Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice

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

w13022 Jacob L. Vigdor
The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?

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

w12985 Anders Bjorklund
Markus Jantti
Gary Solon

Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

w12975 Colleen N. Flaherty
The Effect of Tuition Reimbursement on Turnover: A Case Study Analysis

w12960 Eric A. Hanushek
Kuzey Yilmaz

Schools and Location: Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy

w12955 Jacob L. Vigdor
Is Urban Decay Bad? Is Urban Revitalization Bad Too?

w12932 Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson
David Pozen

Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

w12931 Jeffrey R. Kling
Methodological Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments

w12863 Pietro Garibaldi
Francesco Giavazzi
Andrea Ichino
Enrico Rettore

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

w12844 Bruce A. Weinberg
Belton M. Fleisher
Masanori Hashimoto

Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education

w12840 Flavio Cunha
James Heckman

The Technology of Skill Formation

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
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

w12700 Cyrus C. M. Mody
Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000

w12693 Keith A. Bender
John S. Heywood

Educational Mismatch Among Ph.D.s: Determinants and Consequences

w12691 Donna K. Ginther
Shulamit Kahn

Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001

w12669 Lynne G. Zucker
Michael R. Darby
Jonathan Furner
Robert C. Liu
Hongyan Ma

Minerva Unbound: Knowledge Stocks, Knowledge Flows and New Knowledge Production

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

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

w12471 Philip J. Cook
Robert MacCoun
Clara Muschkin
Jacob Vigdor

Should Sixth Grade be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior

w12424 John Bound
Sarah Turner

Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment

w12396 Dean Yang
Why Do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence From Philippine Migrants%u2019 Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks

w12387 Christopher S. Ruebeck
Joseph E. Harrington
Jr.
Robert Moffitt

Handedness and Earnings

w12364 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps

w12352 David M. Cutler
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence

w12329 Justin McCrary
Heather Royer

The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth

w12318 James Heckman
Contributions of Zvi Griliches

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

w12298 Eric I. Knudsen
James J. Heckman
Judy L. Cameron
Jack P. Shonkoff

Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce

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

w12251 Zeynep Hansen
Hideo Owan
Jie Pan

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

w12227 Susan M. Dynarski
Judith E. Scott-Clayton

The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics

w12211 Patrick Bayer
Stephen L. Ross

Identifying Individual and Group Effects in the Presence of Sorting: A Neighborhood Effects Application

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

w12176 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Alan Manning

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

w12171 Janet Currie
Erdal Tekin

Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?

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

Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery

w12143 Jacob L. Vigdor
The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1960-2000

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

w12114 John H. Tyler
Jeffrey R. Kling

Prison-Based Education and Re-Entry into the Mainstream Labor Market

w12078 David Card
Jesse Rothstein

Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

w12077 Thomas Lemieux
Post-Secondary Education and Increasing Wage Inequality

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

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

w12018 James J. Heckman
Paul LaFontaine

Bias Corrected Estimates of GED Returns

w12006 James J. Heckman
Jora Stixrud
Sergio Urzua

The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior

w12005 Joshua Angrist
Aimee Chin
Ricardo Godoy

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

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

w11953 Claudia Goldin
The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family

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

w11835 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy
Analia Schlosser

New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children

w11813 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan

Racial Sorting and Neighborhood Quality

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

w11796 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell Salvanes

From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes

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

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"?

w11627 David H. Autor
Lawrence F. Katz
Melissa S. Kearney

Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists

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

w11569 Raquel Fernández
Alessandra Fogli

Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience

w11568 Mark Duggan
Melissa Schettini Kearney

The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation

w11567 Janet Currie
Enrico Moretti

Biology as Destiny? Short and Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight

w11547 David Card
Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?

w11512 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans

w11507 Patrick Bayer
Hanming Fang
Robert McMillan

Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation

w11494 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren

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

w11463 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren

Principals as Agents: Subjective Performance Measurement in Education

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

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

w11347 Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger
Stephanie K. Riegg

School Quality, Neighborhoods and Housing Prices: The Impacts of school Desegregation

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?

w11302 Dalton Conley
Rebecca Glauber

Parental Educational Investment and Children's Academic Risk: Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility

w11260 Frank F. Furstenberg
Jr.
David Neumark

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

w11259 James J. Heckman
Edward Vytlacil

Structural Equations, Treatment Effects and Econometric Policy Evaluation

w11258 Federico Echenique
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

On the Measurement of Segregation

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

w11095 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan
Kim Rueben

Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

w11090 Derek Neal
Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped?

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

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

w10932 Edward P. Lazear
Speeding, Tax Fraud, and Teaching to the Test

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

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

w10722 Caroline M. Hoxby
Ilyana Kuziemko

Robin Hood and His Not-So-Merry Plan: Capitalization and the Self-Destruction of Texas' School Finance Equalization Plan

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

w10701 Katherine Baicker
Nora Gordon

The Effect of Mandated State Education Spending on Total Local Resources

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

w10608 Jayanta Bhattacharya
Janet Currie
Steven Haider

Breakfast of Champions? The School Breakfast Program and the Nutrition of Children and Families

w10591 Eric A. Hanushek
Margaret E. Raymond

Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?

w10575 Victor Lavy
Analia Schlosser

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

w10554 Richard B. Freeman
Emily Jin
Chia-Yu Shen

Where Do New US-Trained Science-Engineering PhDs come from?

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?

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

w10229 Eric A. Hanushek
Some Simple Analytics of School Quality


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

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

w10060 David Neumark
Donna Rothstein

School-to-Career Programs and Transitions to Employment and Higher Education

w10053 Kenneth Y. Chay
Michael Greenstone

Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970

w10045 Pinka Chatterji
Illicit Drug Use and Educational Attainment

w10008 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Miguel Urquiola

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

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

w9881 Karsten Hansen
James J. Heckman
Kathleen J. Mullen

The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

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

w9877 James J. Heckman
Xuesong Li

Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education

w9876 Michael Kremer
Dan M. Levy

Peer Effects and Alcohol Use Among College Students

w9818 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith

The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

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

w9766 Alexandra Cox Edwards
Manuelita Ureta

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

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

w9683 George M. Holmes
Jeff DeSimone
Nicholas G. Rupp

Does School Choice Increase School Quality?

w9678 Joshua Graff Zivin
Richard Just
David Zilberman

Risk Aversion, Liability Rules, and Safety

w9671 Paul Glewwe
Nauman Ilias
Michael Kremer

Teacher Incentives

w9653 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren

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

w9652 Brian A. Jacob
Public Housing, Housing Vouchers and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago

w9641 Enrico Moretti
Human Capital Externalities in Cities

w9628 Donna K. Ginther
Robert A. Pollak

Does Family Structure Affect Children's Educational Outcomes?

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

w9546 Pedro Carneiro
Karsten T. Hansen
James J. Heckman

Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College

w9545 Joshua D. Angrist
Jonathan Guryan

Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements

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

w9497 James J. Heckman
Salvador Navarro-Lozano

Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models

w9495 James Heckman
Pedro Carneiro

Human Capital Policy

w9482 Christopher Avery
Caroline M. Hoxby

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

w9476 Amitabh Chandra
Is the Convergence of the Racial Wage Gap Illusory?

w9448 Cameron Howell
Sarah E. Turner

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

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

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

w9310 Sandra E. Black
Amir Sufi

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

w9283 Roberton Williams
Prices vs. Quantities vs. Tradable Quantities

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

w9205 Christopher Jepsen
Steven Rivkin

What is the Tradeoff Between Smaller Classes and Teacher Quality?

w9201 Jeffrey A. Frankel
Andrew K. Rose

Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality

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

w9136 Mustafa H. Babiker
Gilbert E. Metcalf
John Reilly

Tax Distortions and Global Climate Policy

w9125 Wayne B. Gray
Ronald J. Shadbegian

Optimal Pollution Abatement - Whose Benefits Matter, and How Much?

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?

w9074 Alan B. Krueger
Jitka Maleckova

Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?

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

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

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

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

w8799 Eric A. Hanushek
Publicly Provided Education

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

Why Public Schools Lose Teachers

w8588 Eric Hanushek
Charles Ka Yui Leung
Kuzey Yilmaz

Redistribution through Education and Other Transfer Mechanisms

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

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

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

w8343 Joshua Angrist
Eric Bettinger
Erik Bloom
Elizabeth King
Michael Kremer

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

w8263 Darius Lakdawalla
The Declining Quality of Teachers


1995
w5164 Thomas J. Kane
Rising Public College Tuition and College Entry: How Well Do Public Subsidies Promote Access to College?


1994
w4784 Victor R. Fuchs
Diane M. Reklis

Mathematical Achievement in Eighth Grade: Interstate and Racial Differences


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