subsidy worth thousands of dollars annually to students from families with above-median incomes. White students receive larger … subsidies relative to Black students and Hispanic students with similar family incomes, and this gap in subsidies is associated … students' advantage in these outcomes relative to Black students and Hispanic students …

instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find … for debates over increasing diversity among PhD students in STEM fields because of spillovers to minority undergraduates …

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 …