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 …

throughout their lives, parents' initial skills and skill growth rates are equally important determinants of children's skills … lower for children born to younger fathers … transmission of these factors explains up to 40% of children's skill variation. Skills become a more important determinant of …

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 …

have increased. We discuss these trends as well as recent evidence on the extent to which students are able to obtain … student credit arrangements that balance three important objectives: (i) providing credit for students to access college and … outcomes in the form of income-contingent repayments, and (iii) providing incentives for student borrowers to honor their loan …

, over half of all low-income borrowers manage to make timely payments. We demonstrate that other financial resources in the … advocated for a move to an income-based repayment system. Under such a system, many low-income borrowers in good-standing (due … payment among those that are currently delinquent or in default since their income levels are so low. Specifically, we show …