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Is It Live or Is It Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning
This article presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus Internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research…
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower poverty schools
- T. Sass, Jane Hannaway, Zeyu Xu, D. Figlio, Li Feng
- Education
- 19 January 2012
Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
- David Autor, D. Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeffrey Roth, M. Wasserman
- Economics, PsychologyAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- 1 May 2016
Boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high school completions than girls from comparable backgrounds. Using birth…
Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children and Their Peers
- D. Figlio
- Psychology, EducationEducation Finance and Policy
- 1 April 2005
This article proposes an unusual identification strategy to estimate the effects of disruptive students on peer behavior and academic outcomes. Because boys with names most commonly given to girls…
Functional form and the estimated effects of school resources
- D. Figlio
- Economics, Education
- 1 April 1999
What's in a Grade? School Report Cards and the Housing Market
- D. Figlio, M. E. Lucas
- Economics
- 1 May 2004
This paper investigates whether the housing market responds to the information incorporated in state-administered school grades. We study whether school grades affect families' residential locations…
Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure
- C. Rouse, Jane Hannaway, Dan Goldhaber, D. Figlio
- Education
- 1 December 2007
While numerous recent authors have studied the effects of school accountability systems on student test performance and school "gaming" of accountability incentives, there has been little attention…
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