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Cordes, Sarah A.; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
Residential mobility is likely to have consequences for student performance, but prior empirical work is largely correlational and offers little insight into its impacts. Using rich, longitudinal data, we estimate the effects of residential mobility on the performance of New York City public school students. Using both student fixed effects and…
Descriptors: Place of Residence, Student Mobility, Academic Achievement, Performance Factors
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Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna; Cordes, Sarah A. – Education Finance and Policy, 2017
Policy makers and analysts often view the reduction of student mobility across schools as a way to improve academic performance. Prior work indicates that children do worse in the year of a school move, but has been largely unsuccessful in isolating the causal effects of mobility. We use longitudinal data on students in New York City public…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Whitesell, Emilyn Ruble; Stiefel, Leanna; Schwartz, Amy Ellen – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
Across the country and in urban areas in particular, many students change schools during the academic year. While much research documents the impact of changing schools on the academic achievement of mobile students themselves, less research explores whether new arrivals have negative spillovers on stable classmates. The lack of research on…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
Been, Vicki; Ellen, Ingrid; Figlio, David N.; Nelson, Ashlyn; Ross, Stephen; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
This study examines the effects of negative equity on children's academic performance, using data on children attending Florida public schools and housing transactions from the State of Florida. Our empirical strategy exploits variation over time in the timing of family moves to Florida in order to account for household sorting into neighborhoods…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Public Schools, Housing
Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna; Cordes, Sarah A. – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2015
The majority of existing research on mobility indicates that students do worse in the year of a school move. This research, however, has been unsuccessful in isolating the causal effects of mobility and often fails to distinguish the heterogeneous impacts of moves, conflating structural moves (mandated by a school's terminal grade) and…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Academic Achievement, Influences, Longitudinal Studies
Ladd, Helen F., Ed.; Goertz, Margaret E., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015
Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention to elementary and secondary education. Chapters from the first edition have been fully updated and revised…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education