. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the … likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM …

-random distribution of teachers and students among classrooms within schools. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials affect … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …

Grade retention and early dropout are two of the biggest challenges facing education systems in middle-income countries … outcomes that are early-warning signals for grade retention and dropout. We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in … information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our 18-month intervention raised average math GPA by 0.09 of a …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

new groups of students arriving on campus encountered a social system centered on exclusive old boys' clubs. We combine … archival and Census records of students' college lives and long-run careers with a room-randomization design based on a scaled … residential integration policy. We first show that high-status students from prestigious private high schools perform worse …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …

limited effectiveness, the introduction of a new modality with enhanced mentor training significantly improves children …

After three decades of decline, the amount of time spent by parents on childcare in the U.S. began to rise dramatically … in the mid-1990s. Moreover, the rise in childcare time was particularly pronounced among college-educated parents. Why … would highly educated parents increase the amount of time they allocate to childcare at the same time that their own market …