the two earliest-adopting states, nearly half of all students were induced into testing, and 40-45% of them earned scores … mandates, with no effect on overall attendance. I conclude that a large number of high-ability students appear to dramatically … human capital investment for a substantial number of students …

role models on female preferences for STEM majors. We conduct a randomized control trial where female senior students … selected high schools. We find that exposure to this treatment increases high ability female students' preferences for … engineering programs by 14 percentage points. The effect is only statistically significant for the subgroup of female students …

from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK university, we examine how students assess their own and their peers …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are … manipulated and students are randomly assigned to these groups. Boys tend to postpone their dropout decision when surrounded by … effects on achievement. This in spite of the fact that students' perceptions of the behavior of themselves and their peers are …

2013. Costly mistakes have externalities: they transfer tuition waivers from high- to low-socioeconomic status students …, and increase the number of students attending college. To shed light on the mechanisms underlying mistakes, we exploit a …