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How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best Response Dynamics

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B. Golub, Matthew O. Jackson
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Heat and Learning

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018
We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air conditioning may mitigate this effect. Student fixed effects models using students who retook the PSATs show that hotter school days in the years before the test was taken reduce scores, with
J. Goodman, Michael Hurwitz, Jisung Park, Jonathan Smith   +3 more
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What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We conduct meta-analysis on a comprehensive set of studies of the impacts of US K-12 public school spending on student outcomes–estimating average marginal impacts and heterogeneity across contexts.
C. Jackson, Claire L. Mackevicius
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Special Economic Zones and Human Capital Investment: 30 Years of Evidence from China

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023
By exploiting the large quantity and rich variety of special economic zones (SEZs) in China, this study investigates how such zones affect human capital investment.
Fangwen Lu, Weizeng Sun, Jianfeng Wu
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Apart But Connected: Online Tutoring, Cognitive Outcomes, and Soft Skills

Social Science Research Network
We study the Tutoring Online Program (TOP), where tutoring is entirely online and tutors are volunteer university students matched with underprivileged middle school students.
Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara
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The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education

Journal of Economic Literature, 2023
This paper summarizes what is known about the impact of public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the three sectors where they have been used intensively: infrastructure (energy, transport, water and sanitation, and telecommunications), education, and health.
A. Fabre, S. Straub
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Simple Manipulations in School Choice Mechanisms

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Market design mechanisms are often required to be strategy proof, ensuring that no misreporting is profitable. This, however, may be overly restrictive: Real-world participants may be unable to engage in complex misreporting.
Ryo Shirakawa
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The Educational Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction during the Pandemic

American Economic Review: Insights, 2023
Using testing data from over two million students in nearly 10,000 schools in 49 states (plus the District of Columbia), we investigate the role of remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty.
Dan Goldhaber, Thomas J. Kane, A. McEachin, Emily Morton, Tyler M Patterson, D. Staiger   +5 more
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The Long-Term Effects of Career Guidance in High School and Student Financial Aid: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
This paper studies the effects of a randomized control trial in which Canadian high school students were randomly invited to participate in a career guidance program during high school and/or made eligible for extra financial aid conditional on college ...
Laetitia Renée
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First-Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks

The American Economic Review
High school students from non-elite backgrounds are less likely to have peers with elite-educated parents than their elite counterparts. This difference in social capital is a key driver of the high intergenerational persistence in elite education.
Sarah Cattan, K. Salvanes, E. Tominey
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