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 …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on students. We theorize that if budget …

teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both students' cognitive and noncognitive skill. Results …

access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …

widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …

-experimental variation in state spending. Unlike previous measures, we find that high-income-modest-ability students especially benefit since … students. This implies that the net benefits to students who do not attend public colleges is negative. However, they miss … private colleges admit, what prices they charge, and the number of students who enroll in any college. We show that capturing …

Using value-added models, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socioemotional development (SED) by …

allow for much more credible causal claims. Focusing on studies of students in the United States, this paper briefly …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when …