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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Economics of Education"”.
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Essays in Economics of Education
… across the world reveal that millions of school going children have failed to acquire even the most basic literacy and numeracy skills. This has serious policy implications as recent studies have shown that the quality of education apart from quantity is an important determinant of …
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Essays in Economics of Education
This dissertation consists of two chapters on topics in economics of education. In the first chapter, I study how parents perceive the uncertainty of the returns to investment of the child development process and how this uncertainty impacts their actual investment in children. To do so, I develop …
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Essays in Economics of Education
This thesis is composed of three essays on the economics of education. The first essay is about the heterogeneity of gains from selective school admission. The question of who benefits from selective school enrollment remains controversial. I show that Boston exam schools have heterogeneous effects …
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Essays on the Economics of Education
My thesis consists of three chapters on the Economics of Education. In the first chapter, I take a structural approach to studying the extent to which teacher behavior and teacher interactions with students determine teaching contribution to test score growth in the classroom. Teachers’ …
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Essays on the economics of education
This thesis consists of three original research articles relating to schooling in England. The first research chapter evaluates a recent English education policy which encourages state primary schools to become academies: state-funded, non-selective, and highly autonomous establishments. The …
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Essays in the Economics of Education
<p>This dissertation is comprised of three essays in the economics of education. In the first essay, I examine how college students' major choice and major switching behavior responds to major-specific labor market shocks. The second essay explores the incidence and persistence of overeducation for …
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Essays in the Economics of Education
<p>This dissertation analyzes the effects of various inputs in the education production function on student outcomes in higher education. Using unique data from public higher education in Arkansas, this paper uses student-level analysis to understand effects interactions between students with peers …
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Essays on the Economics of Education
Post-secondary education is becoming increasingly more common for students around the world. As quantity of education increases, it becomes less of a distinguishing factor to be simply a college graduate. For those who want to stand out, the quality aspects of education become more salient. …
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Essays on the economics of education
This dissertation is composed of three distinct essays. The abstracts for each individual essay are given below: The Effect of Daily Start Times on Academic Performance Local school districts often stagger daily start times for their schools in order to reduce busing costs. This paper uses data on …
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Essays on the economics of education
… published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Essays in the economics of education
This thesis consists of three chapters that study how characteristics of peers and schools affect human capital. The first chapter reports estimates of academic and social peer effects from a large-scale field experiment at selective boarding schools in Peru. The experimental design overcomes some …
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Essays in the economics of education
This thesis consists of three essays on the economics of education.The first chapter estimates the effects of participating in the National School Lunch Program in the middle of the 20th century on educational attainment and adult health. My instrumental variables strategy exploits a change of the …
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Essays on the economics of education
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 …
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Essays on the economics of education
This dissertation consists of three essays in the economics of education. The first chapter uses Boston charter school admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of charter enrollment on special needs students' classification and achievement. Charter schools remove special needs classifications …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Education
<p>This dissertation is comprised of three essays on the economics of education. The first and third chapters examine marijuana legalization and its effects on students, while the second chapter examines the impact of pension incentives on teacher quality.The first chapter examines the extent to …
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Empirical Essays on the Economics of Education.
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays on the economics of education. Chapter 2 explores a secondary school admission policy reform and employs repeat sales data to examine the relationship between house prices and school quality. I use the reform to generate exogenous variation in …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Education
This dissertation consists of essays on three inputs into the educational production function: curriculum, peers, and teachers. The chapters are linked by their focus on understanding the importance of these inputs for student achievement and by their exploitation of the exact timing of events …
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Three essays on the economics of education
… three chapters that study the Brazilian higher educational system and determines the barriers to acquiring higher education in the country. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Rural and urban schools' performance in Brazil and its impact on access to higher education …
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Essays on the Economics of Education and Gender
… contains three studies that examine the role of education in skill accumulation in early childhood. Chapter 1 examines the effect of elementary school teachers' beliefs about gender roles on student achievement. We exploit a natural experiment where teachers are assigned randomly to schools …
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