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Howard, Larry L. – Economics of Education Review, 2011
This paper estimates models of the transitional effects of food insecurity experiences on children's non-cognitive performance in school classrooms using a panel of 4710 elementary students enrolled in 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade (1999-2003). In addition to an extensive set of child and household-level characteristics, we use information on U.S.…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Student Behavior, Counties, Classrooms
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Leigh, Andrew; Ryan, Chris – Economics of Education Review, 2008
How much do returns to education differ across different natural experiment methods? To test this, we estimate the rate of return to schooling in Australia using two different instruments for schooling: month of birth and changes in compulsory schooling laws. With annual pre-tax income as our measure of income, we find that the naive ordinary…
Descriptors: Twins, Income, Least Squares Statistics, Foreign Countries
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Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Smith, Christopher L. – Economics of Education Review, 2004
Multiple 2- and 4-year public institutions exist within many states in the United States. Our paper develops a methodology that can be used to help evaluate how each 2-year public institution in a state is doing in preparing those of its students who transfer to 4-year public institutions in the state to successfully complete 4-year programs.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Institutional Evaluation, Public Colleges, Two Year Colleges