. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the … likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM …

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 …

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 …

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 …

school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using … composition, income, and region. We find robust evidence that the black-white test score gap is higher in more segregated cities …

Forty years ago, 96% of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. As of 2005, the figure was just 84 … in the age of legal school entry intensify socioeconomic differences in educational attainment, since lower-income … children are at greater risk of dropping out of school when they reach the legal age of school exit …

evidence of a large negative discontinuity at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children ages 5-9 from causes that could be …