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 …

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 …

-city schools that provided teacher training in addition to payments to eleventh- and twelfth- grade students and their teachers for … passing scores on Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Affected students passed more AP exams, were more likely to remain in college … beyond their first and second years, and earned higher wages. Effects are particularly pronounced for Hispanic students who …

Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy … estimates indicate that, for poor children, increases in Head Start spending and increases in public K12 spending each … increases in K12 spending were more efficacious for poor children who were exposed to higher levels of Head Start spending …