income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

previously-estimated average effects to predict benefits. Moreover, it suggests that interventions that target all students would …

to a greater extent than they determine additional study. Finally, we show that family income and financial transfers … (from both parents and the state) do not determine any educational input. This study suggests that non-cognitive abilities …

schools, finding that exposed students were more likely to become teachers by 0.6 percentage points (pp), or 47%. Effects are …

estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. However, the extant literature's focus on … number of school days between kindergarten students' fall and spring tests in the nationally representative Early Childhood … Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). The marginal effect of a typical 250-day school-year on kindergarten students …

students' test scores as well as their attendance, behavior, and earnings as adults. However, students do not enjoy equal …

the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …

both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina … to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students …

programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …