We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered … that midday meals have a dramatic positive effect on learning achievement: children with up to 5 years of primary school … implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in …

We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered … that midday meals have a dramatic positive effect on learning achievement: children with up to 5 years of primary school … implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in …

concerning the allocation of students to classes in order to foster immigrant students' integration and learning. …Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this … paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not …

. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …

that small increases in shared computer access, one more computer per 40 students, can produce large increases in digital …

that small increases in shared computer access, one more computer per 40 students, can produce large increases in digital …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

the costs and benefits of smaller classes concludes that other education policies, such as tutoring, early childhood …