Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Four Essays In The Economics Of Education And The Family
Download Four Essays In The Economics Of Education And The Family full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Four Essays In The Economics Of Education And The Family ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Four Essays in the Economics of Education and the Family by : Arnaud Chevalier
Download or read book Four Essays in the Economics of Education and the Family written by Arnaud Chevalier and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four Essays on the Economics of Education by : Melissa A. Clark
Download or read book Four Essays on the Economics of Education written by Melissa A. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Teachers, Family and Friends by : Krister Sund
Download or read book Teachers, Family and Friends written by Krister Sund and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays in Education and Family Economics by :
Download or read book Essays in Education and Family Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four Essays in the Economics of Education by : Merlin Penny
Download or read book Four Essays in the Economics of Education written by Merlin Penny and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four Essays on the Economics of Education and Inequality by : Markus Zimmermann
Download or read book Four Essays on the Economics of Education and Inequality written by Markus Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four Essays on Economics of Education by : Lisa Leschnig
Download or read book Four Essays on Economics of Education written by Lisa Leschnig and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on the Economics of Education by : Sally Lindquist Hudson
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education written by Sally Lindquist Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation combines three essays on the economics of education. The essays share a common focus on comparing experimental and non-experimental econometric methods. I present findings from randomized evaluations of two prominent education interventions for low-income students. In the spirit of LaLonde's (1986) pioneering re-analysis of experimental evidence on federal job training programs, I leverage the experimental data to assess nonexperimental methods for evaluating program impacts. The first chapter - written jointly with Joshua Angrist, David Autor, and Amanda Pallais - reports early results from a randomized evaluation of the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (STBF) scholarship, a large, privately-funded financial aid program for applicants to Nebraska's public colleges. Randomly-assigned scholarship offers boosted average grants received by $6,300 per year and dramatically improved enrollment and retention, especially for groups with historically-low persistence rates. Four years after award receipt, nonwhite students and first-generation college goers were nearly 20 percentage points more likely to be enrolled in college. Awards generated similarly large gains for students with the weakest high school GPAs in the eligible applicant pool. Over time, scholarships shifted many students from two- to four-year colleges, reducing associate's degree completion in the process. The economic returns to scholarship support will therefore likely hinge on whether award winners convert their extended enrollment into bachelor's degrees. The oldest study cohort will record its four-year graduation rate in the summer of 2016, but many students will likely take five or more years to finish. A complete picture of award impacts on degree receipt may therefore still be several years away. In the second chapter, I assess how selection bias distorts non-experimental estimates of STBF scholarship impacts. I show that observed gaps in retention rates between scholarship winners and rejected applicants overstate the causal effect of scholarships on dropout by nearly double. Controlling for high school GPA and Expected Family Contribution (EFC) - two widely-used criteria for awarding merit aid - explains roughly half the gap between the experimental benchmarks and observed enrollment rates. Conditional on GPA and EFC, however, additional demographic traits like race, gender, and parental education have little explanatory power. Thus, scholarship winners are positively selected on potential enrollment in the absence of treatment, and a variety of observational estimation strategies overstate the causal impacts of scholarships on enrollment and retention. Among the replication strategies, Kline's (2011) Oaxaca-Blinder procedure outperforms both discrete covariate matching and propensity score weighting on bias and precision. Because STBF award effects are larger for students who are less likely to win scholarships, linear regression estimates are even bigger than the biased estimates of treatment on treated (TOT) effects. In the final chapter, I use experimental estimates of Teach for America's (TFA) impacts on student achievement to validate a non-experimental strategy for measuring the long-run effects of hiring TFA teachers. Randomized evaluations show that TFA teachers outperform colleagues in boosting achievement at hard-to-staff schools. Despite this cross-sectional evidence, TFA's long-run effects remain unknown, a key concern for policymakers. High turnover among TFA recruits - who commit to serve for just two years - may undercut the long-run returns to hiring non-TFA teachers, who improve steeply with experience. To assess this potential tradeoff, I measure the short- and long-run effects of TFA hiring in North Carolina, where schools have employed TFA teachers since the program's founding in 1990. I identify TFA hiring effects by exploiting quasi-random variation in teacher hiring shocks across grades within schools. In the short run, TFA rookies increase math scores markedly relative to the non-TFA teachers schools might otherwise hire; TFA's initial advantage in reading is modest. When schools replace exiting TFA teachers with new TFA recruits, these gains more than offset the costs of lost experience, increasing long-run achievement. On the other hand, when TFA supply fluctuates, schools may have to replace exiting TFA teachers with inexperienced and lower-performing non-TFA hires. On net, short run achievement gains from one-shot TFA hiring still exceed the costs. JEL Classification: C93, I22, J63.
Book Synopsis Essays on the Economics of Education and Family Formation in Developing Countries by : Ifeatu Oliobi
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education and Family Formation in Developing Countries written by Ifeatu Oliobi and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I find that conflict induces men to delay first marriage and first birth, but there are no significant impacts on the timing of these activities for women. Both men and women who are exposed to the war have fewer children, and women also desire fewer children overall. Additionally, women who were exposed to the war have a smaller age difference from their husbands and are less likely to be married to men who have other wives. They are also less likely to experience domestic violence, on average. War exposure has no effect on the education difference between spouses, but women's educational attainment increases, on average, while that of men decreases. Finally, I find no effects of war exposure on women's relational empowerment, in terms of their attitudes to domestic violence and intra-household decision-making, but they are less likely to be engaged in paid work. This study contributes new evidence on the long-term impact of armed conflict on family formation in sub-Saharan Africa and shows how these impacts vary by gender and the age and duration of war exposure.
Book Synopsis Four Essays in Economics of Education by : Mirjam Strupler Leiser
Download or read book Four Essays in Economics of Education written by Mirjam Strupler Leiser and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Essays on the Economics of Education by : Stephen Robert Lipscomb
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Education written by Stephen Robert Lipscomb and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second chapter documents that a student's relative age is an important predictor of high school leadership activity. Relative age is a factor that is associated purely with school structure, rather than genetics or family background. State-specific school entry cut-offs induce systematic within-grade variation in student maturity, which in turn generate differences in leadership activity. Across three nationally representative samples that span three decades, the relatively oldest students are four to eleven percent more likely to be high school leaders.
Book Synopsis Three Essays in the Economics of Education and Family by : Nellie Lew
Download or read book Three Essays in the Economics of Education and Family written by Nellie Lew and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to gain additional insight into the consequences of divorce reforms on the quality of matches in Mexico, I analyze individual marriage and divorce certificate data in Chapter 3, "The Effect of Divorce Laws on the Duration of Marriage in Mexico". Specifically, I estimate the effect on marital duration of marrying after liberal divorce provisions are adopted using a Cox proportional hazard model as my main empirical technique. I find evidence that couples marrying under the presence of any of the four divorce provisions are more likely to divorce and do so more quickly compared to couples marrying in states without any such provisions.
Book Synopsis Essays in the Economics of Education, Children and Family by : Shirlee Lichtman
Download or read book Essays in the Economics of Education, Children and Family written by Shirlee Lichtman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three distinct essays in the economics of education, children and family. The first essay evaluates the effectiveness of carbonated beverage bans in schools by investigating their impact on household carbonated beverage consumption. I match households in Nielsen Homescan Data to their school district's carbonated beverage policies over the last 10 years. I find that when high schools ban the sale of carbonated beverages to students, households with a high school student experiencing the ban increase their consumption of non-diet carbonated beverages by roughly the equivalent of 3.5 cans per month. I present evidence that the average high school student consumes roughly 4.5 cans of non-diet soda per month in school, when carbonated beverages are available. Thus, the results suggest that the drop in student school consumption is substantially offset by increased household consumption. The second essay explores the effectiveness of motivating students to improve their academic performance through conditioning various privileges. I show that conditioning the privilege of going off campus during the school day on certain academic (GPA, test scores, etc.) or behavioral (absences, probation, etc.) criteria improves high school students' test scores and decreases their dropout rates. These results shed light on student incentive programs intended to increase academic performance. The third essay asks how conditioning a monetary benefit on individuals' family status can create distortions, even in individuals' seemingly personal decisions, such as the birth of a child. I exploit a 21-month lag between announcing California's introduction of the first paid parental leave program in the United States and its scheduled implementation to evaluate whether women timed their pregnancies in order to be eligible for the expected benefit. Using natality data, documenting all births in the United States, I show that the distribution of California births in 2004 significantly shifted from the first half of the year to the second half of the year, immediately after the program's implementation. While the effect is present for all population segments of new mothers, it is largest for disadvantaged mothers - with lower education levels, of Hispanic origin, younger, and not married.
Book Synopsis Educational Efficiency and Institutions by : Linn Renée Naper
Download or read book Educational Efficiency and Institutions written by Linn Renée Naper and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays in the Economics of Education by : Jesse Morris Rothstein
Download or read book Essays in the Economics of Education written by Jesse Morris Rothstein and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Education and the Family by : Helena Holmlund
Download or read book Education and the Family written by Helena Holmlund and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on Education and Family Economics by : Caroline Schwientek
Download or read book Essays on Education and Family Economics written by Caroline Schwientek and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: