Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Education policy"
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An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Predictors and Outcomes of Absenteeism in the Early Years
(2022-09-08)Preschool absenteeism rates are high. Children with higher absenteeism rates perform worse on assessments of literacy, math, and social-emotional skills by the end of a school year and are more likely to be absent in ... -
Beliefs and Decision-Making in Education
(2022-06-06)This dissertation consists of three essays that examine beliefs and decision-making in education. The first essay examines how a short-term preschool subsidy in rural Indonesia affects parents' beliefs and investments in ... -
Connecting Both Sides of the “Admission Desk”: Contextual Data from High School Counselors and Factors Influencing Its Quality
(2023-05-08)In recent years, selective colleges have embraced the use of contextual data in their holistic assessments of undergraduate applicants. Background data about students’ school and home environments can enable admission ... -
Downstream Effects: Understanding the Consequences of Policy Decisions for Marginalized Groups
(2023-06-01)This dissertation provides three chapters focused on intersections between race, class, ability, and geography within the economics and sociology of education. In Chapter One, I evaluate the impacts of the New York City ... -
Essays in education policy and labor economics
(2023-05-02)This dissertation contains three essays focused on understanding issues at the intersection of education policy and labor economics. The first essay seeks to understand how Finland's first national childcare policy shaped ... -
Essays on College Student Outcomes and Inequality
(2023-06-01)This dissertation consists of three essays that estimate the impact of policies and practices on college student outcomes and inequality in higher education. The first essay shows that salient and accessible signals about ... -
Essays on Late Investment in Human Capital
(2021-05-12)This dissertation consists of three essays examining public education's role in the formation of human capital from high school through adulthood. I use quasi-experimental methods assess the returns to three types of ... -
Essays on Public School Choice and Inequality
(2023-04-26)This dissertation consists of three papers. In each paper, I use applied econometric methods to study the implications of public school choice policies. The findings offer insights about how to improve upon existing school ... -
Essays on Student Employment
(2021-05-13)College tuition and fee rates have risen dramatically over the last twenty years. Grant aid dollars, however, have increased at a slower rate, especially at public four-year institutions, which were twice as expensive in ... -
Essays on the Economics of Education
(2021-04-28)This dissertation consists of three essays in the economics of education. The first essay considers the impact of charter school openings on student achievement, behavior, and demographics in the traditional public ... -
Essays on the Economics of Education
(2022-06-06)This dissertation consists of three essays. In each essay, I use an applied econometric method to study the impact of a policy or an intervention on the teacher workforce. The first essay estimates the impact of personnel ... -
Essays on the Relationships Between School Context and Teachers' Instructional Practices and their Implications for Student Learning
(2023-09-11)In the three essays which compose this dissertation, I use econometric tools to examine the relationships between various measures of school context and teachers' practice. I first study how a literacy curriculum intervention ... -
Essays on the Teachers' Labor Market
(2013-10-08)Chapter 1 begins with the motivation of my study in teachers' labor market. I employ a monopolistic screening model to show that there exist multiple equilibria in the educational system; a pooling equilibrium and a ... -
Informing Large-Scale Policies in Education
(2022-07-12)This dissertation consists of three essays that inform large-scale, national-level policies in education. The first essay estimates the effects of a federal grant to improve access and quality in state pre-K programs in ... -
Investigating Sources of Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Intervention Research
(2021-05-12)Intervention research in education investigates whether and how particular educational programs help students learn. Treatment effect heterogeneity, or variation in a program’s impact, makes this effort more complicated, ... -
Recruiting and Preparing Quality Teachers
(2022-05-10)In Paper #1, I investigate the career exploration processes of 96 recent graduates of elite higher education institutions with varying levels of interest and commitment to teaching. My aim is to understand how intrinsic ... -
Select Works on the Economics of Education
(2022-05-04)This dissertation comprises three essays in the field of economics of education. The first essay studies the short and long-run effects of Head Start, a federally funded early childhood education program that targets ... -
Statistical Explorations of Testing and Testing Culture
(2021-05-13)This dissertation is composed of three studies. The first and second examine the U.S. private tutoring industry which heretofore has gone largely undocumented by academic research. I show that not only has the industry ... -
The Economic, Social and Health Effects of America’s Two-Year Public College
(2022-09-08)This dissertation is comprised of three essays in the fields of labor economics, health economics, and the economics of education. Each essay concerns the estimation of the causal effect of increased access to college on ... -
Three Essays on Educational Policy and Equity
(2022-05-02)The systematic oppression of Black men and women throughout U.S. history has resulted in persistent unequal access to opportunity. U.S. leaders have long attempted to improve the outcomes of Black Americans through public ...