Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion. NBER Working Paper No. 17533.
By S. Dynarski, Joshua Hyman, D. Schanzenbach. 2011
197 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Education
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Citations in the corpus
- Children's schooling and parents' behavior: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study (2013, unknown): “…that this is true is not captured in the Becker and Tomes framework in part because this framework does not allow multiple dimensions of investment in children. the finding of fading gains, has also been noted in other contexts (e.g. Heckman et al. 2010; Chetty et al. 2011; Dynarski et al. 2011).”
- Teacher Expectations Matter (2016, unknown): “For example, Dynarski, Hyman, and Schanzenbach (2013) find that assignment to small classes in primary school increased college graduation rates by 1.6 percentage points.”
- Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill-Biased Technological Change (2020, unknown): “The skill distribution of local earnings gains from the fracking boom may differ from the distribution of 13As a point of comparison, Dynarski, Hyman, and Schanzenbach (2013) found that being randomly assigned to attend a small class in kindergarten (with 13 to 17 students) instead of a…”
- Why Do College Going Interventions Work (2017, unknown): “A different approach is to follow Dynarski, Hyman, and Schanzenbach (2013) and calculate the cost per additional student induced into college.”
- The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers (2017, unknown): “…we 14Using the limited pre-experiment data available on students, previous research has documented good balance between students assigned to small- and regular-sized classrooms and between students assigned to same- and different-race teachers (Dee, 2004; Dynarski et al., 2013; Krueger, 1999).”
- Does Money Matter in the Long Run? Effects of School Spending on Educational Attainment (2017, unknown): “…size reduction, have found that while test scores are unaffected or have effects that fade out over time, the effects then reappear as improvements in long-term outcomes such as postsecondary attainment and earnings (Deming, 2009; Dynarski et al., 2013b; Chetty et al., 2013; Heckman et al., 2013).”