School segregation, student achievement, and educational attainment in Hungary

High School Socioeconomic Segregation and Student Attainment

Student Aid, Student Behavior, and Educational Attainment

Forty years ago, when the federal system of student loans and grants was born, providing the basis for today’s student financial aid system, about half of all recent high school graduates were enrolled in college. Today, more than two-thirds of those who complete high school enroll in two-year or four-year colleges within a year (NCES, 2012c, Table 234). While significant differences persist ac...

How Economic Segregation Affects Children’s Educational Attainment

Economic segregation increased in the United States between 1970 and 1990. Three hypotheses suggest that this would affect low-income children’s educational attainment. The political economy of school funding and predicts that economically segregated school districts reduce the educational attainment of low-income children. Two other hypotheses emphasize the effect of inequality within neighbor...

School Reform, School Size, and Student Achievement

by Randall W. Eberts, Ellen Kehoe Schwartz, and Joe A. Stone Randall W. Eberts is an assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Ellen Kehoe Schwartz is a research evaluator with the General Accounting Office; and Joe A. Stone is the W.E. Miner Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon. This work was supported in part by the National Institute of Ed...

School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects increases the higher the level of aggregation ...