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 …

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 …

We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating … interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the … effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …