We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and … individual characteristics, students from countries with long term oriented attitudes perform better than students from cultures … that do not emphasize the importance of delayed gratification. These students perform better in third grade reading and …

identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students … schools improves reading - but not math - performance and it also decreases absenteeism of students who remain in the TPS …