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Cash for Test Scores: The impact of the Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program, Education Next (2008)
 

Working Papers

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A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program, under submission (2008)
The Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program pays both students and teachers for passing grades on...
 

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Ability Grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago, under submission (2008)
In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on...
 

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Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegregation, under revision (2008)
The reshuffling of students due to the end of student busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg provides a...
 

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Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers (with Elias Bruegmann), under submission (2008)
Using student examination data linked to longitudinal teacher personnel data we document that a teacher’s...
 

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Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative (with Christopher Avery, Caroline Hoxby, Kaitlin Burek, Glenn Pope, and Mridula Raman), NBER Working Paper No. 12029 (2006)
This paper evaluates the first year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative, which increased aid and...
 

Work in Progress

A Stitch in Time: Evaluating the Effects of an AP Incentive Program on College Outcomes (2008)
 
One for the Road: Public Transportation, Alcohol Consumption, and Intoxicated Driving (with Emily G. Owens) (2008)
 
Paying Kids for Performance: An Evaluation of the REACH Program (with Bruce Sacerdote) (2008)