This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

We use a regression discontinuity design to examine students' responses to the negative incentive brought on by being … differently based on ability, we find that being placed on probation at the end of the first year discourages some students from … is known, we find that heterogeneous discouragement effects result in high ability students having a greater overall …

We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …

-message coaching program - in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing … program effects on students' non-academic outcomes, despite estimating null effects on course grades and credit accumulation …

the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult … contrast, interventions that rely on technology to maintain low-touch contact with students can be implemented at large scale … students. We work with a sample of over four thousand undergraduate students from a large Canadian university, randomly …

had the same level of permanent income prior to 1982 when some of the fathers were displaced. We demonstrate that job loss … leads to large permanent reductions in family income. Comparing outcomes among individuals whose fathers experienced an … employment shock to outcomes among individuals whose fathers did not, we find that children whose fathers were displaced have …

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 …

to all students, and separate schools that are open to children with Catholic backgrounds. The systems are administered … competition on the growth rate of student achievement. The estimates suggest that extending competition to all students would …