This paper describes a field experiment in Oklahoma City Public Schools in which students were provided with free … cellular phones and daily information about the link between human capital and future outcomes via text message. Students …' reported beliefs about the relationship between education and outcomes were influenced by treatment, and treatment students …

-quarter normal compensation levels. For students randomly assigned to stay with existing classes, test scores did not increase … significantly, despite a reduction in class size from 82 to 44 on average. In contrast, scores increased for students assigned to be … existing teachers. A governance program that empowered parents within PTAs reduced both forms of capture. The best contract …

After decades of narrowing, the achievement gap between black and white school children widened in the 1990s - a period …

be more effective because students do not know the educational production function, and thus have little clue how to turn …

We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria … income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting … for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that …

one agent (students) for various inputs in the education production function (i.e. attendance, behavior, interim … assessments, homework, and uniforms). In Houston, TX, incentives were "vertical" - provided to multiple agents (parents, teachers …, and students) for a single input (math objectives). On outcomes for which we provided direct incentives, there were large …

short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …