The effect of teach for America on the distribution of student achievement in primary school: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 113-125

  Antecol, Heather ^a,b   Eren, Ozkan ^c   Ozbeklik, Serkan ^a  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IZA ^*  (Germany)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed effect quantile regression; Random assignment; Student achievement

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; EDUCATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STUDENT;

EID: 84886560188     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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