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Are Lots of College Graduates Taking High School Jobs? A Reconsiderationof the Evidence

scientific article published in May 1995

Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers? Evidence from California

scientific article published in March 2009

Do Teacher Absences Impact Student Achievement? Longitudinal Evidence from One Urban School District

scientific article published in August 2007

Do the Cognitive Skills of School Dropouts Matter in the Labor Market?

scientific article published in April 1999

Does Acquisition of a GED Lead to More Training, Post-Secondary Education, and Military Service for School Dropouts?

Educating Urban Children

scientific article published in February 2008

Estimating the Impact of the GED on the Earnings of Young Dropouts Using a Series of Natural Experiments

Expanding School Enrollment by Subsidizing Private Schools: Lessons from Bogotá

scientific article published in October 2005

High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis

scientific article published in June 2011

How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions: The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes

scientific article published in June 2011

Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Impact Evaluations

scientific article published in July 2014

Improving the Performance of the Education Sector: The Valuable, Challenging, and Limited Role of Random Assignment Evaluations

Income-based Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Learning from State Longitudinal Data Systems

scientific article published in January 2015

Long-Term Trends in Private School Enrollments by Family Income

scientific article published in July 2017

The Consequences of Educational Voucher Reform in Chile

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The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts

scientific article published in July 2008

The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination

scientific article published in March 1995

The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration

scientific article published in June 2001

Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gap:Clarifying the Meaning of Within- and Between-School Achievement Gaps

scientific article published in August 2008

U.S High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations

scientific article published in January 2013

Upstairs, Downstairs: Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank

scholarly article published September 2000

Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond

scientific article published in June 1999