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Browsing ILR School by Author "Jackson, Clement (Kirabo)"
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A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program
(2007-01-01)I analyze a program implemented in Texas schools serving underprivileged populations that pays both students and teachers for passing grades on Advanced Placement (AP) examinations. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, ... -
Ability-Grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence From Rule-Based Student Assignments
(2009-03-06)[Excerpt] In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on achievement tests, generating large differences in school and peer quality. Using rule-based instrumental variables to ... -
Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative
(2006-02-01)This paper evaluates the first year of Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative, which increased aid and recruiting for students from low income backgrounds. Using rich data from the Census and administrative sources, we estimate ... -
Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting and Teacher Quality: Evidence From the End of School Desegregation
(2009-01-05)The re-shuffling of students due to the end of student busing in Charlotte- Mecklenburg provides a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between changes in student attributes and changes in teacher quality ... -
Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers
(2009-02-15)Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using ...
