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 …

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 …

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 …

School Class of 1972 to study how male college students' employment while in college influences their academic performance …

In 1965 Congress established the Social Security Student Benefit Program which provided benefits for children of … federal outlays on student assistance for higher education. The program was terminated for students newly entering college as …

collected from students who entered the treatment and 50 control departments during a 15 year period that spanned the start of …

greatest number of NMS students …

increase in the length of time necessary for doctorate students to complete their programs that occurred over the period and … are increasing support for graduate students. Surprisingly little empirical evidence is available on how different types … completion rates. Our paper uses data on all graduate students who entered Ph.D. programs in four fields during a 25-year period …

proposed to prevent such shortages is increased federal support for graduate students. Lost in the policy debate, however, has …-producing universities do respond to changes in external support for graduate students by altering the number of students they support on … responses are quite small. On average, an increase of 100 in the number of students supported by external funds is estimated to …