I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on students. We theorize that if budget …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both students' cognitive and noncognitive skill. Results …

access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …

Using value-added models, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socioemotional development (SED) by …

allow for much more credible causal claims. Focusing on studies of students in the United States, this paper briefly …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when …

In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on achievement tests, leading … to large differences in the school environments to which students of differing initial levels of achievement are exposed … differences by assigning the weakest students to schools that provide the least value-added …

Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in … unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm … coeducational school. While students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools benefit, most …