environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

students. However, very little empirical work has to date been completed on this topic. This paper provides the first empirical … every third, fourth, and fifth grader in a large school district over four years, we match students' test score gains and … substantial evidence that higher grading standards benefit students. We find that these effects are not uniform: High …

better than third generation immigrants. Among first generation immigrants, the earlier the arrival, the better the students … tend to perform. These patterns of findings hold for both Asian and Hispanic students, and suggest a general pattern of …

Nearly 60 percent of college students today are women. Using longitudinal data on a nationally representative cohort of … eighth grade students in 1988, I examine two potential explanations for the differential attendance rates of men and women …

have relied more on remedial programs such as summer school and grade retention to help low-achieving students meet minimum … achievement for third grade students and has little effect on math achievement for sixth grade students …

reading performance of elementary students. We find that marginal increases in-service training have no statistically or … not be sufficient to increase the achievement of elementary school children in high poverty schools …

employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …