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Jilli Jung
Early literacy tutoring and children’s reading trajectories: Evidence from a four-year randomized controlled trial
Topics: Student LearningTags: Child developmentMost evidence on early literacy tutoring comes from intensive one-year interventions. Much less is known about whether schools can sustain individualized instructional support as students’ reading needs evolve across the early grades. We present findings from a four-year randomized controlled… more →
Do later school start times improve adolescents’ sleep and substance use? A quasi-experimental study
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Student engagementA later school start time policy has been recommended as a solution to adolescents’ sleep deprivation. We estimated the impacts of later school start times on adolescents’ sleep and substance use by leveraging a quasi-experiment in which school start time was delayed in some regions in South… more →
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University, University of MinnesotaThe Stubborn Unresponsiveness of Youth Voter Turnout to Civic Education: Quasi-experimental Evidence from State-Mandated Civics Tests
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceYouth voter turnout remains stubbornly low and unresponsive to civic education. Rigorous evaluations of the adoption of civic tests for high school graduation by some states on youth voter turnout remain limited. We estimate the impact of a recent, state-mandated civics test policy—the Civics… more →
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University