Data Lessons AEJ.zip
This contains instruction on how to obtain the data used in "Can Online Off-The-Shelf Lessons Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence from A Field Experiment." this folder also includes the code use for the...
View ArticleTeacher Effects and Teacher Related Policies
The emergence of large longitudinal data sets linking students to teachers has led to rapid growth in the study of teacher effects on student outcomes by economists over the past decade. One large...
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We explore whether early childhood human-capital investments are complementary to those made later in life. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were...
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Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test scores. Two explanations are (a) parents cannot discern schools’ causal impacts,...
View ArticlePer Pupil Spending 1967 through 2010
This data-set has the raw annual district-level per-pupil spending data used in Jackson, Johnson, and Persico (2016). Note that these data report school spending in 2010 dollars.
View ArticleThe Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes: Evidence...
Since Coleman (1966), many have questioned whether school spending affects student outcomes. The school finance reforms that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused some of the...
View ArticleReplication code for JPE
This files contains all the code required to replicate the findings in Jackson, C. Kirabo. (forthcoming) "What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score Outcomes" Journal...
View ArticleWhat Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score...
I present a model in which teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their influence on both cognitive and noncognitive skill. Empirically, I proxy for students’ noncognitive skill using...
View ArticleThe Effect of Single-Sex Education on Test Scores, School Completion,...
In 2010, the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago converted 20 low-performing secondary schools from coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of...
View ArticleDoes School Spending Matter? The New Literature on an Old Question
Social scientist have long sought to examine the causal impact of school spending on child outcomes. The literature on this topic was largely descriptive so that it had been difficult to draw strong...
View ArticleWhat is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the...
Is a school’s impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on high-stakes tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first...
View ArticleSchool Effects on Socio-emotional Development, School-Based Arrests, and...
Using value-added models, we find that high schools impact students’ self-reported socio-emotional development (SED) by enhancing social well-being and promoting hard work. Conditional on schools’ test...
View ArticleRebuttal_AEJ_arkansas_post.pdf
This is a response to Goldstein and McGee (2020). For access the to forthcoming paper and the online appendix click here: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20180674&&from=f
View ArticleWho Benefits From Attending Effective Schools? Examining Heterogeneity in...
We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviors in 9th grade) for...
View ArticleThe Distribution of School Spending Impacts
We use estimates across all known "credibly causal" studies to examine the distributions of the causal effects of public K12 school spending on test scores and educational attainment in the United...
View ArticleEducation_covid_post.pdf
Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker will be laid-off during times of economic change. Yet, this has not been...
View ArticleCan Introducing Single-Sex Education into Low-Performing Schools Improve...
In 2010, the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago converted 20 low-performing secondary schools from coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the policy-relevant...
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