's performance changes after he gains legal access to alcohol, controlling flexibly for the expected evolution of grades as students … make progress towards their degrees. We find that students' grades fall below their expected levels upon being able to …

the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult … contrast, interventions that rely on technology to maintain low-touch contact with students can be implemented at large scale … students. We work with a sample of over four thousand undergraduate students from a large Canadian university, randomly …

participation, and income. Cohorts born closer to Medicaid implementation and in states with higher pre-existing welfare … later. Total income does not change because earnings replace disability benefits. The government earns a discounted annual …

Medicaid expansions, which targeted low-income pregnant women, and were adopted differently across states and over time. We use …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

effective at raising non-cognitive skills. Head Start is also more effective for children with less-educated mothers. Centers … that draw more children from center-based preschool have smaller effects, suggesting that cross-center differences in …

and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic …