opportunities of less educated natives is scant. On the question of assimilation, the success of the U.S.-born children of … daughters have higher education and wages than the children of natives. Even children of the least- educated immigrant origin … groups have closed most of the education gap with the children of natives …

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 …

attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation … quality of local schools, with bigger effects for the children of less-educated parents. We then narrow our focus to black …We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and …

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