Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K-12 students … admission threshold, or a lower bar for disadvantaged students? We use data from a large urban school district to study the … impacts of assignment to separate gifted classrooms on three distinct groups of fourth grade students: non …

This paper examines schools' decisions to sort students into different classes and how those sorting processes impact …," which allows teachers to direct their focus to a more narrow range of students, and a peer effect, which causes a particular … tracking effect and the peer effect should benefit high performing students. However, the effects would work in opposite …

particular, we use data on individual students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to … three schools used, students in the middle of the SAT distribution do somewhat worse in terms of grades if they share a room … with a student who is in the bottom 15 percent of the SAT distribution. Students in the top of the SAT distribution appear …

,000 Italian students graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 and followed through college and in the labor market. We …-Teacher assignment group, shows large variation that we document to be as good as random. We find that male students who attended a high …, male students from high school classes with >90% males ended up with lower probability of graduating altogether, and they …

identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of … entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously …