error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …

What makes you popular at school? And what are the labor market returns to popularity? We investigate these questions … impact of early family environment on popularity. We estimate that moving from the 20th to 80th percentile of the high-school …

random assignment of Korean middle school students to single-sex schools, co-educational (coed) schools with single …-time. We find little evidence that classroom or school gender composition affect the outcomes of female students. …We estimate the causal impact of school and classroom gender composition on achievement. We take advantage of the …

there has been little empirical evidence, particularly in the education sector, on whether government intervention crowds …

participation rate for those with a college degree or more. Similarly, men and women with less than a high school education are over …The goal of this paper is to draw attention to the long lasting effect of education on economic outcomes. We use the … relationship between education and two routes to early retirement – the receipt of Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and …

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming … majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data … education reform that increased the mandatory years of schooling from 5 to 8 years in 1997. Using exposure to the reform as an …

for a middle school, grandfathered students see achievement gains at least as large as the gains for students assigned … needn’t capture treatment effects for students who haven’t applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for … which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates of the effect of charter school attendance on middle-schoolers in charter …

institutions - that students take to obtain a bachelor's degree or through the higher education system more generally. We also know …A considerable fraction of college students and bachelor's degree recipients enroll in multiple postsecondary … panel data set from Texas that allows us to both examine in detail the paths that students take towards a bachelor's degree …

level of motivation to read. Elementary school students were mailed books weekly during the summer, mailed books and also …For whom and under what conditions do incentives work in education? In the context of a summer reading program called … Project READS, we test whether responsiveness to incentives is positively or negatively related to the student’s baseline …

of our visits to each school will find some of these students in one of their honors classes and others in one of their …When effort is observable to peers, students may act to avoid social penalties by conforming to prevailing norms. To … test for such behavior, we conducted an experiment in which 11th grade students were offered complimentary access to an …