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 …

We use a regression discontinuity design to examine students' responses to the negative incentive brought on by being … differently based on ability, we find that being placed on probation at the end of the first year discourages some students from … is known, we find that heterogeneous discouragement effects result in high ability students having a greater overall …

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 …

'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 …

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 …