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Ability-Grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence From Rule-Based Student Assignments, (2008)

In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on...

 

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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 Poppe, and Mridula Raman), Working Papers (2006)
This paper evaluates the first year of Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative, which increased aid and...
 

Peer Reviewed Papers

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A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program, The Journal of Human Resources (2010)
The Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program pays both students and teachers for passing grades on...
 

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Do Students Benefit From Attending Better Schools?: Evidence From Rule-based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago, The Economic Journal (2010)
In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on...
 

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Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers (with Elias Bruegmann), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2009)
Using student examination data linked to longitudinal teacher personnel data, we document that a teacher’s...
 

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Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality: Evidence From the End of School Desegregation, The Journal of Labor Economics (2009)

The reshuffling of students due to the end of student busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg provides a...

 

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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 Stitch in Time: The Effects of a Novel Incentive-Based High-School Intervention on College Outcomes (2009)
I analyze the longer-run effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade...
 

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One for the Road: Public Transportation, Alcohol Consumption, and Intoxicated Driving (with Emily G. Owens), (2009)
We exploit arguably exogenous train schedule changes in Washington DC to investigate the relationship between...
 

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Peer Quality or Input Quality?: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago (2009)
Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers, I obtain...