We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …

This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in … behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive and executive function skills through a parent academy. Parents were … rewarded for attendance at early childhood sessions, completing homework assignments with their children, and for their child …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In previous research, a substantial gap in test scores between White and Black students persists, even after …

achievement is -0.042 standard deviations in math and -0.034 standard deviations in reading, per year. Students enrolled in … this, specialized teachers report providing less attention to individual students (relative to non-specialized teachers …