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Accountability, Incentives and Behavior: The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in the Chicago Public Schools

scientific article published in May 2002

Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan

scientific article published in February 2016

Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration and Juvenile Crime

scientific article published in April 2003

Can Principals Identify Effective Teachers? Evidence on Subjective Performance Evaluation in Education

article

Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?

Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?

scientific article published in November 2008

Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory

scientific article published in January 2003

College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?

scientific article published in January 2013

Defining Culture in a Multicultural Environment: An Ethnography of Heritage High School

article

Differentiated Accountability and Education Production: Evidence from NCLB Waivers

scientific article published in June 2017

Do High School Exit Exams Influence Educational Attainment or Labor Market Performance?

scientific article published in May 2006

Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?

scientific article published in February 2010

Early Exposure to Child Maltreatment and Academic Outcomes

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Educational Expectations and Attainment

scientific article published in January 2010

Electric organs in skates: Variation and phylogenetic significance (Chondrichthyes: Rajoidei)

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

Estimating the Effects of a Large For-Profit Charter School Operator

scientific article published in April 2018

How Does an Accountability Program that Targets Achievement Gaps Affect Student Performance?

Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery

scientific article published in May 2014

Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children

scientific article published in December 2008

Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries

scientific article published in September 2007

Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education

scientific article published in January 2017

New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

scientific article published in February 2011

Principals as Agents: Subjective Performance Measurement in Education

scientific article published in July 2005

Public Housing, Housing Vouchers and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago

scientific article published in April 2003

Rational Ignorance in Education: A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism

scientific article published in January 2010

Remedial Education and Student Achievement: A Regression-Discontinuity Analysis

scientific article published in May 2002

Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating

scientific article published in January 2003

Status of Two Species of Skates, Raja (Dipturus) teevani and R. (D.) floridana (Chondrichthyes: Rajoidei), from the Western North Atlantic

scientific article published on 16 May 1994

Teacher Applicant Hiring and Teacher Performance: Evidence from DC Public Schools

scientific article published in March 2016

Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement: An Investigation of Differential Performance on NAEP and State Assessments

The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations

scientific article published in April 2016

The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Weather Shocks

scientific article published in September 2004

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence from Public Schooling

scientific article published in February 2010

The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion

scientific article published in October 2007

The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas

scientific article published in October 2008

The Effect of Labor Market Information on Community College Students’ Major Choice

scientific article published in April 2017

The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

scholarly article published November 2003

The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

scientific article published in December 2008

The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality

scientific article published in August 2011

The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement

scientific article published in November 2009

The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

scientific article published in October 2007

The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools

scholarly article published September 2000

The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement

The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reform Efforts in Chicago

scientific article published in April 2002

The Impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum on High School Math Course-Taking

The Measurement of Student Ability in Modern Assessment Systems

scientific article published in July 2016

The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains

scientific article published in June 2008

The Return to Hours Worked Within and Across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap

scientific article published in April 2019

The Return to Hours Worked within and Across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap

scientific article published in 2021

The Return to Hours Worked within and across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap

scientific article published in 2021

The Short-Term and Localized Effect of Gun Shows: Evidence from California and Texas

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The challenges of staffing urban schools with effective teachers.

scientific article published on January 2007

The effects of housing and neighborhood conditions on child mortality

scientific article published on October 30, 2012

The impact of NIH postdoctoral training grants on scientific productivity

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

The impact of research grant funding on scientific productivity

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers

When Evidence is Not Enough: Findings from a Randomized Evaluation of Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI)

scientific article published in October 2015

Where the boys aren't: Non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education

scientific article published in May 2002

Where the boys aren't: non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education

scientific article published in 2002