Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …

eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are … effects in elementary school close the racial achievement gap in both subjects. We conclude by presenting four pieces of …

up to age 5 and one targeting the school environment for first and second grade students. The first intervention supports …'s readiness for school. Among children of mothers without high school education, being in a treatment community positively affects … the school readiness literacy domains and overall score by 0.19 and 0.2 standard deviation, respectively, for girls and …

We show that Progress 8 is a reliable measure of school effectiveness and that parents often do not apply to their most … effective local school. …

group across grades and the composition of teachers in the school assigned to each group is substantially stable over time …