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Fathers as Caregivers: Peer Exposure to Household Gender Roles and Girls’ Beliefs and Achievement
Gender roles are shaped within families, but whether family gender-role arrangements extend beyond households and influence other children remains unclear. This paper studies whether exposure to peers from father-dominant caregiving households affects students’ gender beliefs and educational outcomes.
Family Language Transmission Under Institutional Language Regimes Shapes Adolescent Mental Health Through Peers
In many societies, institutional languages shape participation, recognition, and belonging, while families transmit language backgrounds across generations. These inherited backgrounds may shape children’s communication and, once they enter shared classrooms, the experiences of their peers. This paper examines whether family language environments generate spillovers beyond the household… more →
Nowcasting Teacher Turnover
Policymakers need timely, local information about teacher turnover to make informed decisions, yet turnover data are typically several years out of date and lack the context to assess whether a district's turnover is high or low relative to similar districts. We assemble district-level teacher turnover data from every state from 2003-04 to 2024-25, along with education, labor market, and… more →
Title I and IDEA as Complementary Federal Responses: Distinguishing Opportunity-Mediated and Opportunity-Independent Underachievement
Title I and IDEA are complementary federal responses to different sources of low achievement: each addresses needs that the other does not fully address. Title I targets opportunity-mediated underachievement, or low achievement linked to limited educational opportunity, while IDEA addresses persistent learning needs for which educational opportunity is not the primary explanation.
Geographic and Community Correlates of College Savings: Evidence from the Universe of Pennsylvania 529 Accounts
College savings behaviors are associated with students’ postsecondary enrollment and degree attainment. While prior research has focused on economic and sociological influences, less is known about how geographic and community factors relate to savings. Using administrative data on nearly 200,000 Pennsylvania 529 accounts linked with community-level indicators, this study explores how place… more →
How Much Do Principals Matter When Politicians Choose Them? Evidence from Dated Successions and Close Elections in Brazil
Estimates of how much school principals matter differ by an order of magnitude, in part because conventional estimators require principal identifiers and absorb sampling noise into the estimated dispersion. We identify the variance of principal-by-school effects without identifiers, using successions dated by principals' reported tenure in Brazil's 2011 national assessment, which imply known… more →
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Centering Teachers in the AI Era
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