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Another One Rides the Bus: The Impact of School Transportation on Student Outcomes in Michigan 另一个乘坐公共汽车:学校交通对密歇根州学生成绩的影响
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-07-13 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00382
D. Edwards
School transportation may increase student outcomes by providing a reliable and safe means of getting to and from school. Little evidence of the effects of such policies exists. In this paper, I provide some of the first causal evidence of transportation impacts on student attendance and achievement using a rich panel of student-level enrollment and address data for Michigan public school students and a unique dataset of district transportation policies for the largest 50 districts in Michigan. I exploit the walking distance cutoffs that determine transportation eligibility using a regression discontinuity design. I find that transportation eligibility increases attendance rates and lowers the probability of chronic absence. These effects are largest for economically disadvantaged students, who experience 0.5 to 1 percentage point increase in attendance rates and a 2 to 4 percentage point decrease in the probability of being chronically absent. These results are compelling evidence that school-provided transportation increases attendance for students most at-risk to miss school. However, I find no effect of school transportation on student achievement outcomes. Given the high costs of school transportation, targeting additional transportation services to chronically absent students as an attendance intervention may be more efficient than increasing bus services for all students.
学校交通可以通过提供可靠和安全的上下学方式来提高学生的成绩。几乎没有证据表明这些政策的效果。在这篇论文中,我使用密歇根州公立学校学生的丰富的学生入学和地址数据以及密歇根州最大的50个地区的独特地区交通政策数据集,提供了交通对学生出勤率和成绩影响的一些初步因果证据。我使用回归不连续性设计来利用步行距离截断值来确定运输资格。我发现符合交通条件可以提高出勤率,降低长期缺勤的可能性。这些影响对经济弱势学生影响最大,他们的出勤率提高了0.5到1个百分点,长期缺席的可能性降低了2到4个百分点。这些结果有力地证明,学校提供的交通工具增加了最有可能缺课的学生的出勤率。然而,我没有发现学校交通对学生成绩的影响。鉴于学校交通成本高昂,为长期缺课的学生提供额外的交通服务作为出勤干预措施可能比增加所有学生的公交服务更有效。
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引用次数: 2
Research Grants Crowding Out and Crowding In Donations to Higher Education 研究经费被挤出,高等教育捐款被挤占
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-06-20 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00381
Grant Gannaway, Garth Heutel, Michael Price
Abstract Using a dataset that includes every private donation made to a large public university from 1938 to 2012 and demographic information on all alumni, we examine the effects of public research funding on individual donations. Our dataset allows us to examine crowding effects on a small time scale and extensive donor characteristics. We estimate effects on the total number of donations (extensive margin) and on the average size of a donation (intensive margin). National Science Foundation research grants have a positive (crowd-in) effect on the extensive margin and a negative (crowd-out) effect on the intensive margin. We find no evidence of these effects from other sources of federal research funding. Previous donors and in-state residents respond differently to grants than do new donors and out-of-state residents, respectively.
摘要使用一个数据集,包括1938年至2012年向大型公立大学的每一笔私人捐款和所有校友的人口统计信息,我们研究了公共研究资金对个人捐款的影响。我们的数据集使我们能够在小时间尺度和广泛的供体特征上研究拥挤效应。我们估计了对捐赠总数(广泛边际)和捐赠平均规模(密集边际)的影响。美国国家科学基金会的研究拨款对广泛边际有正向(挤入)效应,对密集边际有负向(挤出)效应。我们没有从其他联邦研究资金来源发现这些影响的证据。以前的捐赠者和州内居民对赠款的反应分别不同于新捐赠者和州外居民。
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引用次数: 0
COVID-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships, and Schooling Outcomes COVID-19危机、经济困难和学校教育成果
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-05-20 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00378
Esther Gehrke, Friederike Lenel, Claudia Schupp
Abstract We combine phone-survey data from 2,200 students collected in July–August of 2020 with student-level administrative data from 54 schools in four northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for grade 9 students. These students were particularly vulnerable to dropping out of school prematurely due to the crisis. We find that most students kept studying during the crisis, returned to school to participate in the lower-secondary graduation exam after schools reopened, and transitioned to high school thereafter. However, we also find that students' exposure to the economic downturn had substantial implications: The likelihood that the father experienced income losses due to the crisis is negatively associated with a student's propensity to study during school closure, participation and performance in the final exam, and with the likelihood to transition to high school. In contrast, the likelihood that the mother experienced income losses is positively associated with student studying during the crisis, with participation in the final exam, and with transition to high school—potentially because mothers used the time at home to encourage their children to study.
我们将2020年7月至8月收集的2200名学生的电话调查数据与柬埔寨西北四省54所学校的学生管理数据相结合,调查2019冠状病毒病大流行对九年级学生的影响。这些学生特别容易因危机而过早辍学。我们发现,大多数学生在危机期间继续学习,在学校重新开学后重返学校参加初中毕业考试,并在之后过渡到高中。然而,我们也发现学生受到经济衰退的影响具有实质性的影响:父亲因经济危机而遭受收入损失的可能性与学生在学校关闭期间的学习倾向、期末考试的参与和表现以及升入高中的可能性呈负相关。相比之下,母亲经历收入损失的可能性与学生在危机期间的学习、参加期末考试以及升入高中的可能性呈正相关——这可能是因为母亲利用在家的时间鼓励孩子学习。
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引用次数: 2
Student Transportation in Choice-Rich Districts: Implementation Challenges and Responses 选择丰富地区的学生交通:实施挑战和对策
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-04-20 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00377
Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
Abstract Despite a growing recognition of the significance of student transportation for promoting equitable school choice, to date, there has been limited understanding of the implementation of school transportation policies, particularly in choice-heavy settings. Moreover, little is known about the challenges associated with managing student transportation in large school districts or how school and district administrators working in distinct contexts respond to these challenges. This brief draws on interview data collected from district administrators, charter school leaders, charter authorizers, and stakeholders in three choice-rich school districts with distinct transportation policies and public transit infrastructures—Detroit, New Orleans, and New York City—to identify the common challenges associated with implementing student transportation policies and administrators’ responses to them. The brief includes a discussion of the implications of high transportation costs, logistical complexity, and student safety challenges as well as non-uniform transportation provision and transportation policies for equitable access to charter schools. It ends with a review of some potential policy alternatives that policymakers should consider when designing transportation policies or working to improve existing transportation practices.
尽管越来越多的人认识到学生交通对于促进公平择校的重要性,但迄今为止,对学校交通政策实施的了解有限,特别是在选择较多的环境中。此外,对于管理大型学区的学生交通所面临的挑战,以及在不同背景下的学校和学区管理者如何应对这些挑战,人们知之甚少。本摘要利用从三个选择丰富的学区(底特律、新奥尔良和纽约市)的地区管理者、特许学校领导、特许授权方和利益相关者那里收集的访谈数据,这些学区具有不同的交通政策和公共交通基础设施,以确定与实施学生交通政策相关的共同挑战以及管理者对此的回应。摘要讨论了高运输成本、物流复杂性和学生安全挑战的影响,以及不统一的运输提供和运输政策对公平进入特许学校的影响。报告最后回顾了决策者在设计交通政策或努力改善现有交通实践时应该考虑的一些潜在的政策选择。
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引用次数: 1
The Effect of Extra School Funding on Students’ Academic Achievements under a Centralized School Financing System 学校集中资助体制下校外资助对学生学业成绩的影响
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-03-15 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00375
Hosung Sohn, Heeran Park, Haeil Jung
Abstract This paper analyzes the effect of providing extra school funding on student achievement under the homogenous school funding system in South Korea. This study exploits an administrative cutoff rule that determines the provision of school funding and uses a regression discontinuity design to identify a causal impact of extra school funding. The analysis finds that a 20 percent increase in per pupil funding for underperforming schools reduced the number of below-average students in mathematics, English, social studies, and science by 19.7 percent, 17.0 percent, 16.1 percent, and 18.1 percent compared with the control-side means. The research findings suggest that additional funding for underperforming schools to promote vertical equity would improve students’ academic outcomes if it is distributed directly to underperforming schools and used to provide new academic programs to students.
摘要本文分析了韩国同质化学校资助制度下提供额外学校资助对学生成绩的影响。本研究利用行政切断规则来决定学校资金的提供,并使用回归不连续设计来确定额外学校资金的因果影响。分析发现,与对照组相比,对表现不佳的学校的每个学生的资助增加20%,数学、英语、社会研究和科学方面低于平均水平的学生数量分别减少了19.7%、17.0%、16.1%和18.1%。研究结果表明,为表现不佳的学校提供额外的资金,以促进纵向公平,如果直接分配给表现不佳的学校,并用于为学生提供新的学术课程,将会改善学生的学业成绩。
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引用次数: 1
Balancing State and Local Power over School Districts’ Finances 平衡州和地方在学区财政上的权力
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-03-08 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00374
Kristine Bowman, Dirk F. Zuschlag
Abstract During and for many years after the 2008–10 Great Recession, financial crises in districts across the country triggered varying state involvement in those districts’ finances and governance, up to and including complete takeover. While these actions were most prominent in a handful of states, all states have laws that enable them to intervene in school districts’ finances. These laws shape important governance relationships as well as the allocation of educational resources, yet we know very little about them. Accordingly, this policy brief reports our identification of 449 state statutory provisions across the country, which together contain 1049 potential interventions; our analysis of those provisions included identifying patterns, trends, and potential interactions with other areas of education policy. At a national level and disaggregated by state, we present what potential state interventions into school district finances already exist, which is a necessary foundation to understand which interventions a district could be subject to in the near future, and how states can both contextualize their policy approaches and best address districts’ financial conduct and fiscal challenges going forward.
在2008-10年经济大衰退期间以及之后的许多年里,全国各地地区的金融危机引发了政府对这些地区的财政和治理的不同程度的干预,直至并包括完全接管。虽然这些行动在少数几个州最为突出,但所有州都有法律允许他们干预学区的财政。这些法律塑造了重要的治理关系以及教育资源的分配,但我们对它们知之甚少。因此,本政策简报报告了我们对全国449个州法定条款的识别,这些条款总共包含1049个潜在干预措施;我们对这些条款的分析包括确定模式、趋势以及与其他教育政策领域的潜在相互作用。在国家层面并按州分类,我们展示了已经存在的州对学区财政的潜在干预,这是了解学区在不久的将来可能受到哪些干预的必要基础,以及各州如何将其政策方法置于背景下,并最好地解决学区的财务行为和未来的财政挑战。
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引用次数: 2
Nothing as Expected: The Year that Was… 事与愿违:那一年…
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-02-11 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00370
Patrice Iatarola
piatarola@fsu.edu INTRODUCTION This presidential essay, much like the times in which it was initially written, centers on the human experience and the Divine Providence through which our lives are shaped and our interactions with others take purpose. While past presidents of the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) have reflected upon the trajectory of the organization, of the state of research, of policy, of the interaction of research and policy, I reflect upon a fundamental shift in the world that we as an organization, as members of AEFP, and as human beings, experienced over the past two years—driven by a global pandemic, jarring social unrest, and direct threats to our democratic institutions. We now breathe a bit freer, though no doubt more cautiously. And, now is the time to reflect on where we are.
piatarola@fsu.edu引言这篇总统论文与最初写作的时代非常相似,它以人类的经历和神圣的天意为中心,通过这些经历和天意塑造了我们的生活,并使我们与他人的互动具有目的。尽管教育财政与政策协会(AEFP)的前任主席都反思了该组织的发展轨迹、研究状况、政策以及研究与政策的互动,但我反思了过去两年来,作为一个组织、作为教育财政和政策协会的成员和人类,在全球疫情的推动下,世界发生了根本性的转变,令人不安的社会动荡,以及对我们民主制度的直接威胁。我们现在呼吸更自由了,尽管毫无疑问更加谨慎了。而且,现在是反思我们现在处境的时候了。
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Pencils Down? Computerized Testing and Student Achievement 铅笔?计算机测试和学生成绩
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00373
John M. Gordanier, Orgul D. Ozturk, Crystal Zhan
Abstract Computer-based testing (CBT) is becoming an increasingly popular format of assessment in educational settings. If students face a digital divide in terms of access to computers at school and at home, CBT may exacerbate measured student achievement gaps. In this paper, we use the rollout of CBT in South Carolina starting in 2015 to investigate its effect on measured student performance. We link student-level test scores and poverty measures to the share of students taking CBT in a grade of a school and show that CBT has a significant negative impact on test scores of multiple subjects. The negative impact is not uniform across student subgroups but rather particularly large for students in poor households. There is little evidence that the effect fades as students and schools become more experienced with computerized testing. These results suggest that the testing mode change might have distributional consequences. However, we do find a smaller effect in schools where technology is more readily available, implying that school-level investments could mitigate the effect.
基于计算机的测试(CBT)正在成为教育环境中越来越流行的评估形式。如果学生在学校和家里使用电脑方面面临数字鸿沟,CBT可能会加剧学生成绩差距。在本文中,我们从2015年开始在南卡罗来纳州推出CBT,以调查其对测量学生表现的影响。我们将学生水平的考试成绩和贫困指标与学校年级中参加CBT的学生比例联系起来,并表明CBT对多个科目的考试成绩有显著的负面影响。负面影响在各个学生群体中并不一致,但对贫困家庭的学生影响尤其大。几乎没有证据表明,随着学生和学校对计算机化考试越来越有经验,这种影响会消失。这些结果表明,测试模式的变化可能具有分布性后果。然而,我们确实发现,在技术更容易获得的学校,影响较小,这意味着学校层面的投资可以减轻这种影响。
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The Inequitable Effects of Teacher Layoffs: What We Know and Can Do 教师下岗的不公平影响:我们所知道的和能做的
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00369
M. Kraft, Joshua Bleiberg
Abstract Economic downturns can cause major funding shortfalls for U.S. public schools, often forcing districts to make difficult budget cuts, including teacher layoffs. In this brief, we synthesize the empirical literature on the widespread teacher layoffs caused by the Great Recession. Studies find that teacher layoffs harmed student achievement and were inequitably distributed across schools, teachers, and students. Research suggests that specific elements of the layoff process can exacerbate these negative effects. Seniority-based policies disproportionately concentrate layoffs among teachers of color, who are more likely to be early career teachers. These “last-in first-out” policies also disproportionately affect disadvantaged students because these students are more likely to be taught by early career teachers. The common practice of widely distributing pink slips warning about a potential job loss also appears to increase teacher churn and negatively impact teacher performance. Drawing on this evidence, we outline a set of policy recommendations to minimize the need for teacher layoffs during economic downturns and ensure that the burden of any unavoidable job cuts does not continue to be borne by students of color and students from low-income backgrounds.
摘要经济衰退可能会导致美国公立学校资金严重短缺,往往迫使各地区艰难地削减预算,包括裁员。在这篇简报中,我们综合了关于大衰退导致的教师大规模裁员的实证文献。研究发现,教师裁员损害了学生的成绩,而且在学校、教师和学生中分布不均。研究表明,裁员过程中的特定因素会加剧这些负面影响。基于工龄的政策不成比例地将裁员集中在有色人种教师中,他们更有可能是职业生涯早期的教师。这些“后进先出”政策也对弱势学生产生了不成比例的影响,因为这些学生更有可能由早期职业教师授课。广泛分发警告潜在失业的解雇通知单的常见做法似乎也会增加教师流失,并对教师表现产生负面影响。根据这一证据,我们概述了一系列政策建议,以最大限度地减少经济衰退期间教师裁员的必要性,并确保任何不可避免的裁员负担不会继续由有色人种学生和低收入背景的学生承担。
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The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral Engagement in School 暑期学习计划对学校行为投入的动态影响
IF 2.1 3区 教育学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00368
Jaymes Pyne, E. Messner, T. Dee
Abstract Evidence that student learning declines or stagnates during summers has motivated an interest in programs providing intensive summer instruction. However, existing literature suggests that such programs have modest effects on achievement and no impact on measures of engagement in school. In this quasi-experimental study, we present evidence on the impact of a comprehensive and mature summer learning program that serves low-income middle school students and features unusual academic breadth, including a robust and well-designed social-emotional learning curriculum. Our results indicate that this program led to substantial reductions in unexcused absences, chronic absenteeism, and suspensions and a modest gain in English language arts test scores. We find evidence that the gains in behavioral engagement are dynamic, growing over time and with additional summers of participation.
摘要有证据表明,学生在夏季学习下降或停滞,这激发了人们对提供强化夏季教学的项目的兴趣。然而,现有文献表明,此类项目对成绩的影响不大,对学校参与度的衡量标准没有影响。在这项准实验研究中,我们提出了一项全面成熟的暑期学习计划的影响证据,该计划为低收入中学生提供服务,具有不同寻常的学术广度,包括一个强大且精心设计的社会情感学习课程。我们的研究结果表明,该项目大大减少了无故缺勤、长期缺勤和停课的情况,并使英语语言艺术考试成绩略有提高。我们发现有证据表明,行为参与的收益是动态的,随着时间的推移和额外的夏季参与而增长。
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