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 …

improves trust and social interaction, and may offer substantial consumption value to some students. We discuss various …

This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of school resources on students' eventual earnings and … black and white students in North and South Carolina that existed in the first half of the 20th century, and the subsequent …

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A … variety of evidence suggests that students who were educated in schools with more resources tend to earn more and have higher …

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks … apart. Half of the students taking the first survey were also shown a 3 minute video about the benefits of post secondary … education (PSE) and invited to try out a financial-aid calculator. Most students' perceived returns to PSE were high, even among …

depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address … potential biases from sorting by focusing on students with restricted course enrollment options due to low registration … priorities, students not getting first section choices, and on courses with no within-term or within-year racial variation in …