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作者：Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Cheng, Huiping
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt University Peabody College; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：An emerging body of research links online credit recovery programs to rising high school graduation rates but does not find comparable increases in student learning. This study follows high school students who engaged in online credit recovery into the labor market to understand the longer-term implications of this growing educational trend. If online credit recovery contributes to high school completion and facilitates job entry, then participants in online credit recovery may have labor mark...
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作者：Grissom, Jason A.; Bartanen, Brendan
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt University Peabody College; University of Virginia
摘要：Classroom observations are the largest component of evaluation ratings given to teachers in the multiple-measure evaluation systems states have implemented in the last decade. Using data from the first eight years of Tennessee's teacher evaluation system, we document race and gender gaps in observation ratings and ask whether these gaps reflect true differences in instructional effectiveness. White and female teachers receive, on average, 0.15 standard deviations (SD) and 0.30 SD higher observ...
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作者：Kessler, Judd B.; Tahamont, Sarah; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of California System; University of California San Diego; United States Department of the Treasury
摘要：Recent policy discussions have proposed government-guaranteed jobs, including for youth. One key potential benefit of youth employment is a reduction in criminal justice contact. Prior work on summer youth employment programs has documented little-to-no effect of the program on crime during the program but has found decreases in violent and other serious crimes among at-risk youth in the year or two after the program. We add to this picture by studying randomized lotteries for access to the Ne...
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作者：Augustine, Elsa; Lacoe, Johanna; Raphael, Steven; Skog, Alissa
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：In the traditional criminal justice system, an arrest is followed by multiple decision points determining detention, prosecution, guilt, and sentence. Many jurisdictions across the United States (U.S.) are exploring alternative programs and approaches that consider individual needs and assessed risks at each decision point. San Francisco County uses post-filing pretrial diversion programs as alternatives to the traditional criminal justice system for defendants based on factors including socia...
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作者：Geiger, Jessica
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作者：Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
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作者：Dursun, Bahadir; Cesur, Resul; Kelly, Inas R.
作者单位：Newcastle University - UK; Newcastle University - UK; University of Connecticut; Loyola Marymount University; Loyola Marymount University
摘要：This study examines the impact of mandatory maternal education on child health in Turkey, where a non-trivial fraction of families restricted their daughters' schooling due to social and cultural barriers. The analysis employs two large data sets and exploits a quasi-experiment involving an education reform that increased compulsory schooling. Results show that an increase in mother's schooling improves child health at birth (as measured by factors such as low birth weight and premature birth)...
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作者：Lipman, Erin R.; Deke, John; Finucane, Mariel M.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Mathematica
摘要：Policymakers are often interested in understanding the impact of an intervention on specific subgroups, not just an overall population. But analyzing subgroup impacts poses challenges. Subgroup estimates are noisier than whole population estimates due to smaller sample sizes. In addition, within the null hypothesis significance testing framework, the chance of a statistically significant impact estimate-where in truth the policy has no meaningful impact-grows rapidly with the number of subgrou...
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作者：Cancian, Maria; Meyer, Daniel R.; Wood, Robert G.
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Mathematica
摘要：Most children in the United States will spend at least part of their childhood living apart from one of their parents; the child support system is designed to ensure that they nonetheless receive financial support. While the system is largely effective when noncustodial parents have substantial regular earnings, many noncustodial parents, including a disproportionate share of those whose children live in poverty, have limited earnings and ability to pay child support. The system's response to ...
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作者：Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Essex; University of Bath
摘要：In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of vehicle collisions in Britain and a range of quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not find that the policy had an effect on road crash deaths and drunk driving collisions. The results are robust to several sensitivity exercises. There is no evidence of effect heterogeneity by income and ot...
