Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the … eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … overcome. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies lead us to the same story: Harlem Children's Zone is …

with accountability measures to allow parents of children in under-performing schools the opportunity to choose higher … an impact on the schools parents chose and if those changed choices led to academic gains. We find that 16% of parents … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …

children when they are high school seniors. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years …

Randomized controlled trials in lower-income countries have demonstrated ways to increase learning, in specific … increased across all four models, more so for female than male students, and many gains persisted one year after the program … teachers increased the likelihood that teachers were engaged with students …

We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …

I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … between class size and household income in equilibrium, which will tend to bias cross-sectional estimates of the effect of … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …

the numbers of students who score at or above specified proficiency levels in various subjects. Accountability systems … based on these metrics often provide incentives for teachers and principals to target children near current proficiency … levels for extra attention, but these same systems provide weak incentives to devote extra attention to students who are …