ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …

different education policies to improve the learning outcomes of low-income children in America. Disagreements on this question … their own; and the need for improved incentives for both teachers and students, and for additional operational flexibility … in early childhood education for poor children, improving the design of the federal No Child Left Behind accountability …

attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation … quality of local schools, with bigger effects for the children of less-educated parents. We then narrow our focus to black …We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and …

improvement in outcomes of students from below median income families. Therefore, we conclude that remedial education program that … students were in their early 30s. Our evidence suggest that treated students experienced a 10 percentage points increase in … points in months employed, and a significant increase in intergenerational income mobility. These gains are reflecting mainly …

In response to budget problems, many urban school systems reduced resources for getting students to come to school … controlled trial with C&C in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to students in grades 1-8. Program participation … decreased absences in grades 5-7 by 4.2 days, or 22.9 percent, but with no detectable effects on students in grades 1-4. We also …

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 …

targeted disadvantaged students in Israel. I show that the program led to significant gains in post-secondary education … universities. Free school choice increased also earnings at adulthood of treated students. Male students had much larger … improvements in college schooling and labor market outcomes. Female students, however, experienced higher increases in marriage and …

Low-income students, even those with strong academic credentials, are unlikely to attend a highly selective college …. With a field experiment, we test an intervention to increase enrollment of low-income students at the highly selective … University of Michigan. We contact students (as well as their parents and principals) with an encouragement to apply and a …