determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …

cognitive skills are significantly related to differences in women's access to high-skilled occupations outside teaching and to …

We investigate whether the academic performance of non-eligible students - in an institutional setting of full … compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to misbehaving students. The hypothesis is thus that special education … resources might dampen the negative externalities associated with misbehaving students, and thus work to improve the performance …

student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To … circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student heterogeneity, we exploit variation within students across math and reading …

students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of …

first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …

students in Michigan for the main analyses, and complement this with analyses from a state-year panel. The study employs … that ACT science scores improved by 0.2 points (or roughly 0.04 standard deviations) as a result of the MMC. Students who … impact on high school graduation for students who entered high school with the weakest academic preparation, but other …

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

conditional progression schemes are effective strategies to select high-performing students. Previous work has mainly focused on …

economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments …. Data on study efforts are derived from an electronic learning environment, which records the amount of time students are …. However, we find that impatient students obtain lower grades and fail final exams more often, suggesting that impatient …