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 …

outcomes, knowledge of the causal effect of the most fundamental input in the education production function - students' study …

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

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 …

-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two years of college can be attributed to what students learn about their … could influence dropout. Our simulations show that students who perform poorly tend to learn that staying in school is not …

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 …

not detectable by existing mean-based tests. Beliefs about future income are found to become more accurate as students …

observed patterns of interaction. We find that, while much sorting exists at all stages of college, black and white students … friends as randomly assigned roommates of the same race. Further, we find that, in the long-run, white students who are … randomly assigned black roommates have a significantly larger proportion of black friends than white students who are randomly …

We use unique data to examine how college students from low income families form expectations about academic ability … characterize beliefs. At the time of entrance, students tend to substantially discount the possibility of bad grade performance …, students update their beliefs in a manner which takes into account both initial beliefs and new information, with heterogeneity …