. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …

causing debates about disadvantages for male students. Using administrative panel data on the universe of students, teachers …' effects on students' tracking outcomes. Germany tracks students at age 10 into more or less academic school types. I find … recommendations or school choice. Even when following students into middle school, no effects of elementary-school teacher gender on …

We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are … actual choice to attend the more academic middle school type. For male students, we find that an increase in class size by 10 …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … pronounced for higher performing students. By contrast, gender differences in media time are the main factor explaining gender … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …