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 …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

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 value-added models, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socioemotional development (SED) by …

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 …

Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in … unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm … coeducational school. While students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools benefit, most …

scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviours in 9th-grade) for students who are more versus less … educationally advantaged (i.e., likely to attain more years of education based on 8th-grade characteristics). All students benefit … from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high …