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 …

-message coaching program - in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing … program effects on students' non-academic outcomes, despite estimating null effects on course grades and credit accumulation …

the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult … contrast, interventions that rely on technology to maintain low-touch contact with students can be implemented at large scale … students. We work with a sample of over four thousand undergraduate students from a large Canadian university, randomly …

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 …

achievement through several distinct channels. From a sample of nearly 25,000 students across three different campuses, we find … evaluate significantly influences academic outcomes (even for those students more at risk of dropping out). We interpret the … results with our survey data and a model of student effort. Students study about five to eight hours fewer each week than they …

,000 students to construct a weekly schedule in an online planning module and to receive weekly study reminders or coach … consultation via text message. Despite high participation and engagement, and treated students at two sites marginally increasing …

An emerging literature documents the many challenges faced by college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is … known, however, about how students responded to the adversity. Focusing on two large Canadian universities, we provide some … of the first evidence on the coping strategies students reported and the relationships between their endorsement of …

students at a large Canadian university were randomly assigned to complete one of two online goal-setting treatments or a …