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 …

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 …

In low-income countries, educators often encourage weak primary students to drop out before reaching the end of primary … school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … performance of each of their students. Teachers responded to this Pay for Percentile (PFP) incentive system in ways that raised …

school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using … composition, income, and region. We find robust evidence that the black-white test score gap is higher in more segregated cities …

with between-cohort comparisons of students at schools with small numbers of gifted children per cohort, to evaluate the …. Since most schools have only a handful of gifted students per cohort, the majority of seats are filled by high achievers …-gifted participants, concentrated among black and Hispanic students, who gain 0.5 standard deviation units in fourth grade reading and …

coach students on test taking skills, and educators typically exploit these opportunities whenever modern assessments are …

We analyze an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within … optimal levels of effort to all students. Moreover, because this scheme employs only ordinal information, it allows education …