I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

Using value-added models, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socioemotional development (SED) by …

scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviours in 9th-grade) for students who are more versus less … educationally advantaged (i.e., likely to attain more years of education based on 8th-grade characteristics). All students benefit … from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high …