What is at stake without high-stakes exams? Students' evaluation and admission to college at the time of COVID-19 [0.03%]
取消标准化考试会怎样？疫情下的学生大学评估和录取制度改革
Andreu Arenas,Caterina Calsamiglia,Annalisa Loviglio
Andreu Arenas
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 inhibited face-to-face education and constrained exam taking. In many countries worldwide, high-stakes exams happening at the end of the school year determine college admissions. This paper investigates the ...
Hitting where it hurts most: COVID-19 and low-income urban college students [0.03%]
切中要害：COVID-19对低收入大学生的影响
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Using data from a rich online student survey collected at an urban college during the summer of 2020, I estimate the causal impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes. I find that the COVID-19 disruptions on students'...
Pinka Chatterji,Yue Li
Pinka Chatterji
We estimate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-reported school enrollment using a sample of 16-to-18-year-old youth from the January 2010 to the December 2020 Current Population Survey (CPS). The pandemic reduced the likelihood of stu...
Decomposing financial inequality across U.S. higher education institutions [0.03%]
美国高等教育机构间金融不平等的分解分析
John J Cheslock,Yahya Shamekhi
John J Cheslock
The level of financial inequality among U.S. higher education institutions has important implications for students and society, yet few scholars have examined this topic using established methods for measuring inequality. This paper updates...
Do Single-Sex Schools Enhance Students' STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Outcomes? [0.03%]
单性别学校能提升学生的STEM学科成绩吗？
Hyunjoon Park,Jere R Behrman,Jaesung Choi
Hyunjoon Park
In many countries, males currently lag behind females in schooling attainment but females are still underrepresented in STEM studies. This pattern has raised renewed interest in the potential of single-sex schools for enhancing STEM outcome...
Aid after enrollment: Impacts of a statewide grant program at public two-year colleges [0.03%]
入学后的资助：两年制公立学院州级补助项目的实施效果研究
Drew M Anderson,Sara Goldrick-Rab
Drew M Anderson
Most students who begin at community colleges do not finish with a degree. The net price of college commonly shifts after enrollment, and there is little evidence on how these shifts affect two-year degree completion. This study provides ev...
Boosting School Readiness: Should Preschool Teachers Target Skills or the Whole Child? [0.03%]
提升学龄前儿童的就学准备能力：学前教育的目标是立德还是树人？
Jade M Jenkins,Greg J Duncan,Anamarie Auger et al.
Jade M Jenkins et al.
We use experimental data to estimate impacts on school readiness of different kinds of preschool curricula - a largely neglected preschool input and measure of preschool quality. We find that the widely-used "whole-child" curricula found in...
Do bonuses affect teacher staffing and student achievement in high poverty schools? Evidence from an incentive for national board certified teachers in Washington State [0.03%]
奖金会影响低收入学校教师的配置和学生成绩吗？来自华盛顿州全国特许教师证书激励计划的证据
James Cowan,Dan Goldhaber
James Cowan
We study a teacher incentive policy in Washington State that awards a financial bonus to National Board certified teachers in high poverty schools. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the bonus policy increased the proport...
The Effects of Changes in Kindergarten Entry Age Policies on Educational Achievement [0.03%]
入学年龄政策的改变对教育成就的影响分析
Jason Fletcher,Taehoon Kim
Jason Fletcher
This study explores the effects of state kindergarten-entry-age policies on students' outcomes by exploiting variation in the kindergarten entry cutoff dates enacted by states in the United States over the last 40 years. Using the state ave...
The importance of family income in the formation and evolution of non-cognitive skills in childhood [0.03%]
家庭收入对儿童非认知技能形成和演变的重要性
Jason M Fletcher,Barbara Wolfe
Jason M Fletcher
Little is known about the relationship between family income and children's non-cognitive (or socio-emotional) skill formation. This is an important gap, as these skills have been hypothesized to be a critical link between early outcomes an...