Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, PA

Total Grants to Swarthmore College
Total $ Granted:	$ 150,096
For Years:	2001 2000 1999 1997 1995
# Grants:	5

Grants to Swarthmore College

Date	Amount	Purpose	Funder
12-31-2001	27,641	Teachers, Students and Educational Achievement: New Lessons from a Randomized Experiment	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-2000	26,248	Teachers, Students and Educational Achievement: New Lessons from a Randomized Experiment Thomas Dee will examine how teacher characteristics and peer interactions affect student educational outcomes. He will utilize data developed as part of an experimental evaluation of students in Tennessee to study the effects of teacher quality and peer interactions on student achievement.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1999	29,004	Teachers, Students and Educational Achievement: New Lessons from a Randomized Experiment Thomas Dee will examine how teacher characteristics and peer interactions affect students' educational outcomes. He will utilize data developed asof a random assignment study of students in Tennessee to study of the effects of student-teacher race matching, teacher quality, and peer interactions on student achievement.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1997	52,703	Consumers, Producers, and the Government: Puzzles in the Market for Child Care This grant supports the research and writing of a book on the behavior of consumers and producers in child care markets. Ellen Magenheim will examine how inadequate information on the quality of child care affects the child care market.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1995	14,500	Fellowship Research Grant Carol Nackenoff Department of Political Science During the second semester of academic year 1995-1996 to continue preparation of one or more journal article(s) and/or a book on the topic, "Contested Citizenship: Competing Narratives of Power, Independence, Gender, and Political Capacity in the United States," 1875-1925.	Earhart Foundation