school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in non-urban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories …

to low socioeconomic status (SES) students using a natural experiment which exploits the time variation in the expansion … treatment is based on SES rather than ethnicity. Evaluating the effectiveness of programs targeting disadvantaged students in … and final year graduation rates, with the impact often stronger for higher ability students. We find similar patterns of …

A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate …

substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …