Education Policy

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• Do Parents Know Best? The Short and Long-Run Effects of Attending the Schools that Parents Prefer (WP-18-18)
• The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania (WP-18-06)
• Do School Spending Cuts Matter? Evidence from the Great Recession (WP-18-02)
• The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Guidelines on Teacher Composition and Student Achievement (WP-17-19)
• Unwelcome Guests? The Effects of Refugees on the Educational Outcomes of Incumbent Students (WP-17-12)
• School Starting Age and Cognitive Development (WP-17-16)
• Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending (WP-17-09)
• The Effect of Single-Sex Education on Academic Outcomes and Crime: Fresh Evidence from Low-Performing Schools in Trinidad and Tobago (WP-16-23)
• The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program (WP-16-18)
• Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance (WP-16-12)
• Simplifying Teaching: A Field Experiment with "Off-the-Shelf" Lessons (WP-16-11)
• School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement (WP-16-04)
• What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score Outcomes (WP-16-03)
• First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function (WP-15-28)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago (WP-15-27)
• Motivation and Incentives in Education: Evidence from a Summer Reading Experiment (WP-15-24)
• The Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from School Finance Reforms (WP-15-19)
• Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes (WP-15-16)
• Education Research and Administrative Data (WP-15-13)
• Expanding the School Breakfast Program: Impacts on Children’s Consumption, Nutrition, and Health (WP-14-28)
• Does Reading During the Summer Build Reading Skills? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in 463 Classrooms (WP-14-22)
• Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States (WP-14-16)
• The Impacts of Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool Education (WP-14-01)
• The Impact of Chicago’s Small High School Initiative (WP-13-20)
• Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers? (WP-13-18)
• Variation in the Heritability of Educational Attainment: An International Meta-Analysis (WP-13-09)
• The Effects of Poor Neonatal Health on Children's Cognitive Development (WP-13-08)
• Novice School Principals' Sense of Ultimate Responsibility: Problems of Practice in Transitioning to the Principal's Office (WP-13-05)
• Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina (WP-12-18)
• Do College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes? (WP-12-12)
• Educational "Goodwill": Measuring the Intangible Assets at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities (WP-12-11)
• Do High School Teachers Really Matter? (WP-12-09)
• Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children’s BMI When Starting Is Endogenous (WP-12-05)
• Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of “No Child Left Behind” on Children’s Obesity (WP-12-04)
• Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion (WP-12-03)
• Instructional Advice and Information Seeking Behavior in Elementary Schools: Exploring Tie Formation as a Building Block in Social Capital Development (WP-11-14)
• Can High Schools Reduce College Enrollment Gaps with a New Counseling Model? (WP-11-06)
• Information Is Not Enough: Cultural Capital, Cultural Capital Translators, and College Access for Disadvantaged Students (WP-11-04)
• School Accountability and Teacher Mobility (WP-10-06)
• Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers (WP-10-03)
• No Child Left Behind: An Interim Evaluation of Its Effects on Learning Using Two Interrupted Time Series Each With Its Own Non-Equivalent Comparison Series (WP-09-11)
• Public Sector Performance Measurement and Stakeholder Support (WP-09-08)
• Coupling Administrative Practice with the Technical Core and External Regulation: The Role of Organizational Routines (WP-09-04)
• Permeability and Transparency in the High School-College Transition (WP-08-07)
• How Large an Effect Can We Expect from School Reforms? (WP-05-04)
• Labor-Market Linkages Among Two-Year College Faculty and Their Impact on Student Perceptions, Efforts, and College Persistence (WP-05-03)
• Professional Community or Communities? School Subject Matter and Elementary School Teachers’ Work Environments (WP-05-02)
• The Contributions of Hard Skills and Socio-emotional Behavior to School Readiness (WP-05-01)
• “Chain Enrollment” and College “Enclaves”: Benefits and Drawbacks for Latino College Students (WP-04-01)
• Policy, Administration, and Instructional Practice: "Loose Coupling" Revisited (WP-03-04)
• The Black-White Other Test Score Gap: Academic Achievement Among Mixed Race Adolescents (WP-02-31)
• The Social Prerequisites of Success: Can College Structure Reduce the Need for Social Know-How? (WP-02-30)
• An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling (WP-02-29)
• High Stakes Accountability in Urban Elementary Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Inequality? (WP-02-22)
• Two Revolutions in Educational Attainment Research: Their Impact on Public Understanding and Social Policy (WP-02-21)
• Organizational Effects on Learning: A Conceptual Model and Research Review (WP-02-20)
• Randomized Experiments in Education: Why Are They So Rare? (WP-02-19)