Sentences with phrase «other observable characteristics»

If the benefits of marriage for children can be explained by other observable characteristics of the family, and especially money or parenting behavior, then policy may be more successful if focused on those pathways.

[28] But when employers are prohibited from asking about prior convictions on a job application, they may illegally attempt to use other observable characteristics — such as race, gender, and age — to infer an applicant's likelihood of having a criminal history.

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

In addition, the variance of our value - added measure is significantly higher within higher - poverty schools than in lower - poverty schools, even after we control for the experience level and other observable characteristics of teachers within each school, which supports the second prediction.

If the benefits of marriage for children can be explained by other observable characteristics of the family, and especially money or parenting behavior, then policy may be more successful if focused on those pathways.

Estimating the effect of individual teachers» grading standards on their students» achievement gains assumes that these standards remain relatively consistent over time, that they are not unduly influenced by the composition of their class, and that they are not a reflection of some other observable characteristic that might account for any effects we observe.

Not exact matches

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

Since the three groups of schools are similar in their observable characteristics, such as the student body's ethnic makeup, and most likely in other characteristics as well, the only major difference between the always - D schools and the other two groups is the competition they face from vouchers.