quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …

-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 …