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Dills, Angela Kathryn.

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Intended and unintended consequences of policies: Essays on test scores and house prices, peer effects and alcohol prohibition (Texas).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Intended and unintended consequences of policies: Essays on test scores and house prices, peer effects and alcohol prohibition (Texas)./
Author:	Dills, Angela Kathryn.
Description:	150 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A, page: 1478.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3051416
ISBN:	049365688X

Intended and unintended consequences of policies: Essays on test scores and house prices, peer effects and alcohol prohibition (Texas).
Dills, Angela Kathryn.

Intended and unintended consequences of policies: Essays on test scores and house prices, peer effects and alcohol prohibition (Texas). - 150 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A, page: 1478.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2003.

The dissertation addresses the intended and unintended consequences of three policies. The first chapter examines high stakes testing in Texas. Texas evaluates, accredits, and financially rewards schools based on student test scores and requires students to pass a state exit exam in order to graduate from high school. Test scores increased dramatically following the implementation of these policies. This research examines how house prices reacted to these test score increases. The results show little or no relation between the improvement in test scores in a district and the change in housing prices in that district. This suggests that homebuyers did not value the gains. Strikingly, increasing ACT scores were associated with increasing house prices; this indicates that buyers care about school quality. High stakes testing intends to increase school quality, thus raising test scores.{09}The comparison of the two results suggests that high stakes testing increased state test scores but failed to increase perceived school quality.

ISBN: 049365688XSubjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

Intended and unintended consequences of policies: Essays on test scores and house prices, peer effects and alcohol prohibition (Texas).
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520 $a Previous studies have been unable to determine convincingly whether the quality of a student's peers affects his achievement. The second chapter uses the introduction of a magnet school to identify this effect. The magnet school selects high quality students from throughout the school district. Its introduction removed different proportions of high-quality peers from each school in the district. The analysis reveals an unintended consequence of the magnet school: that the loss of high ability peers lowers the performance of both high- and low-scoring students remaining in regular schools.
520 $a The third chapter examines the effect of Alcohol Prohibition on alcohol consumption and cirrhosis death rates. The analysis first confirms that cirrhosis is a reasonable proxy for alcohol consumption. Then, using state-level data on cirrhosis death rates, it examines the impact on cirrhosis of state and federal prohibitions and pre-1920 federal anti-alcohol policies. The results show little evidence that state prohibitions significantly reduced cirrhosis. Pre-1920 federal anti-alcohol policies may have caused some of the dramatic decline in cirrhosis that occurred before 1920.{09}Constitutional prohibition decreased cirrhosis death rates a further 10 to 20 percent. The analysis suggests that alcohol prohibitions failed to achieve their intended consequence.
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