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 …

are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on students. We theorize that if budget …

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 …

allow for much more credible causal claims. Focusing on studies of students in the United States, this paper briefly …

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 …

.67 percentage-point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty; effects are much more pronounced for children from low-income …-representative data on children born between 1955 and 1985 and followed through 2011. We use the timing of the passage of court …

different types of school finance reforms on per-pupil spending in low- and high-income school districts. We find that SFRs have … been instrumental in equalizing school spending between low- and high-income districts and many reforms do so by increasing … prices lead to increased spending growth, particularly for low-income districts …