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 …

students in school. More specifically, we investigate how losing different types of social relationships during the transition … from elementary to middle school affect students' academic progress and general well-being. We use social relationships … identified by the students themselves in elementary school, as part of a unique aspect of the Tel Aviv school application process …

new curriculum pivoted away from the old lock-step course structure where all students took the same courses and only … data on university students and employing a difference-in-difference approach, we find that the students who were exposed … and mental well-being is better. These students are more likely to have positive attitudes towards themselves and they are …

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 study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

to be matched with more advantaged students, and we measure the bias this pattern generates in estimates of the impacts … restrict the analysis to schools that assign students to classrooms in a manner statistically indistinguishable from random … advantaged students, a finding that may help explain why the observed form of teacher-student matching persists in equilibrium …

Israeli high school students who took a series of high stakes matriculation exams between 2000 and 2002. As a source of random … students, and children from higher socio-economic backgrounds. The results suggest that random disturbances during high …

among Israeli high school high-stakes tests (2000-2002). Since students take multiple exams on multiple days in the same … human capital, high pollution levels lead to allocative inefficiency as students with lower human capital are assigned a …

This paper describes a field experiment in Oklahoma City Public Schools in which students were provided with free … cellular phones and daily information about the link between human capital and future outcomes via text message. Students …' reported beliefs about the relationship between education and outcomes were influenced by treatment, and treatment students …