aggregate costs of providing mandated programs for disabled children. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of … average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …

This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes … including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents … families in higher-income schools …

determined bequests from parents that can be used to finance schooling, uncertainty in college completion related to differences … structure, we analyze tuition subsidies such as exist in most public colleges, alternative forms of need-based aid, income … more intergenerational mobility and greater income equality. But, the various policies have quite different implications …

expectations during high school and beyond. The results indicate that expectations rose for all students with the greatest … data demonstrate that the majority (about 60 percent) of students update their expectations at least once between eighth …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …