Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Achievement Gaps"

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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Examining the Extent and Implications of Low Persistence in Child Learning

Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Zajonc, Tristan (2009)

Learning persistence plays a central role in models of skill formation, estimates of education production functions, and evaluations of educational programs. In non-experimental settings, estimated impacts of educational ...
Skills, Schools, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Massachusetts

Goodman, Joshua Samuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2010)

Low college enrollment rates among low-income students may stem from a combination of credit constraints, low academic skill, and low-quality schools. Recent Massachusetts data allow the first use of school district fixed ...