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Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric A.; Ost, Ben; Rivkin, Steven G. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large compensating differentials to attract and retain effective…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Public Schools, Poverty
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Xu, Bing – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
This paper studies how rewards based on class rank affect student effort and performance using a game-theoretic classroom competition model and data from the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees in the US. The paper finds that variation in the presence of strong or weak students changes the incentives and test scores of incumbent students…
Descriptors: Rewards, Academic Achievement, Competition, Peer Influence
Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca; Dynarski, Susan; Abenavoli, Rachel; Bloom, Howard; Braga, Breno; Faria, Ann-Marie; Greenberg, Erica H.; Jacob, Brian; Arnold Lincove, Jane; Manship, Karen; McCormick, Meghan; Miratrix, Luke; Monarrez, Tomás E.; Morris-Perez, Pamela; Shapiro, Anna; Valant, Jon; Weixler, Lindsay – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South to North. Many counties that had the strongest…
Descriptors: African American Children, African American History, Migrants, Migrant Children
Ben-Michael, Eli; Feller, Avi; Rothstein, Jesse – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants for freshman admission to submit letters of recommendation. This proved controversial within the university, with concerns that this change would further disadvantage applicants from disadvantaged groups. To inform this debate, we…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Letters (Correspondence), Disadvantaged Youth
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Bachofer, Karen Volz – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four comparison schools by matching based on achievement…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Intervention
Figlio, David N.; Özek, Umut – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation
Cunha, Flavio; Hu, Qinyou; Xia, Yiming; Zhao, Naibao – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
According to UNESCO, one-third of the world's youths are victims of bullying, which deteriorates academic performance and mental health, and increases suicide ideation and the risk of committing suicide. This paper analyzes a four-month parent-directed intervention designed to foster empathy in middle schoolers in China. Our implementation and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Empathy, Middle School Students
Levine, Phillip B.; Ritter, Dubravka – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate impact on college access and outcomes. Retirement savings and home equity are excluded from the formula used to estimate the amount a family can afford to pay. All else equal, omitting those assets mechanically increases the…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Student Financial Aid, Higher Education, Access to Education
Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Schaller, Jessamyn – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
This study explores the effect of school reopenings during the COVID-19 pandemic on married women's labor supply. We proxy for in-person attendance at US K-12 schools using smartphone data from Safegraph and measure female employment, hours, and remote work using the Current Population Survey. Difference-in-differences estimates show that K-12…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Marriage, Labor
Cohodes, Sarah; Corcoran, Sean; Jennings, Jennifer; Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
This paper reports the results of a large, school-level randomized controlled trial evaluating a set of three informational interventions for young people choosing high schools in 473 middle schools, serving over 115,000 8th graders. The interventions differed in their level of customization to the student and their mode of delivery (paper or…
Descriptors: Intervention, Middle School Students, School Choice, Delivery Systems
Lleras-Muney, Adriana – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to understand if these relationships are causal and what the possible role of policy should be as a result. The evidence from various studies is ambiguous: the effects of education and income policies on health are heterogeneous and…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Income, Predictor Variables, Health
Dench, Daniel L.; Joyce, Theodore J. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
The rapid increase in online instruction in higher education has heightened concerns about cheating. We use a randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test whether informing students they have been caught cheating reduces subsequent cheating. We find informing students…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Plagiarism, Cheating
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Turner, Sarah – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
Weak labor markets typically lead young workers to invest in skills. High unemployment during COVID diverged from prior downturns: enrollment at community colleges dropped by 9.5 percent between 2019 and 2020, with the drop larger among men. COVID disruptions generated supply-side impacts on courses of study requiring significant capital and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Labor Market, Supply and Demand
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Course Descriptions, Journal Articles