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 conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

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 …

experiment embedded in a survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided … subset was provided with this information along with a prime that made the role of parents and family more salient (T2). We … find that expectations of working among those in the Control group are quite high, yet students underestimate the expected …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes initiated by instructors. These gender differences cannot be … explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. To understand the mechanisms underlying …

per week. This heterogeneity often followed existing socioeconomic divides; lower-income students are 55% more likely to …,500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal … impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes. Results show large negative effects across many dimensions …

The college experience involves much more than credit hours and degrees. Students likely derive utility from in … come by. Leveraging the COVID-19 shock, we elicit students' intended likelihood of enrolling in higher education under … socioeconomic groups. Our analysis shows that economically-disadvantaged students derive substantially lower value from university …