This paper provides the first causal evidence about how elected local school boards affect student segregation across … schools. The key identification challenge is that the composition of a school board is potentially correlated with unobserved … determinants of school segregation, such as the pattern of household sorting and the degree to which boards are geographically …

adopts CEP. We find modest reductions in suspension rates among elementary and middle but not high school students. While we … are unable to observe how the expansion of free school meals affects the dietary intake of students in our national sample … entire student bodies in free lunch and breakfast programs, extending free meals to some students who would not qualify …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long …-term performance. Using exceptional data from a large highly-selective state university, we relate school accountability pressure in … high school to a student's university-level grades and study habits. We exploit a change in the state's accountability …

strong students during treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a school intervention has been identified in … which peer effects unambiguously help weak students catch up with the rest of the class without imposing any learning cost …We conduct a large scale RCT to investigate peer effects in computer assisted learning (CAL). Identification of peer …

We explore the extent to which schools manipulate the composition of students in the test-taking pool in order to …

School quality and grade completion by students are shown to be directly linked, leading to very different perspectives … estimation of behavioral models of school leaving. Students perceive differences in school quality, measured as expected … on educational policy in developing countries. Unique panel data on primary school age children in Egypt permit …

. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … materials) were the same. Counter to the conclusions drawn by a recent U.S. Department of Education meta-analysis of non …-experimental analyses of internet instruction in higher education, we find modest evidence that live-only instruction dominates internet …

-ability students and in the Northeast. Additionally, we explore how the college preparatory behavior of high school seniors has changed …-term measures of learning and achievement and attempt to test them empirically; the evidence and related literature, while limited …