We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There …

students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being … publicly financed and tuition-free, test-score transmission is very much prevalent. Second-generation (SG) students with more … academic programs than first-generation (FG) students with similar eighth-grade test score ranks. Yet this advantage does not …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM 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 …

students. We randomly assign around 10,000 middle school students in Karnataka, India, to alternative peer learning treatments … statistically and economically significant for students at the bottom of the ability distribution. We develop theoretical conditions …