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Is there a real relationship between expensive houses and better public schools? A new report sheds light on the connection between property value and school quality. Families often choose the location of their next home by where their children will go to school. As the focus on school performance has become more astute thanks …
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The economic case for expanding preschool education for disadvantaged children is largely based on evidence from the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention in the lives of disadvantaged children in the early 1960s. In that program, children were randomly assigned to treatment and control group status and have been systematically followed through age 40. Information …
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This report describes the “bottom-line” economics of various programs that try to reduce criminal behavior. We identify the types of programs that can, as well as those that apparently cannot, reduce criminal offending in a cost-beneficial way. This research was prepared for the Washington State legislature. The legislature directed the Washington State Institute for Public …