. 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 …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …

the numbers of students who score at or above specified proficiency levels in various subjects. Accountability systems … based on these metrics often provide incentives for teachers and principals to target children near current proficiency … levels for extra attention, but these same systems provide weak incentives to devote extra attention to students who are …

In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their … impacts. First, students in small classes are significantly more likely to attend college and exhibit improvements on other …, students who had a more experienced teacher in kindergarten have higher earnings. Third, an analysis of variance reveals …

counties in the U.S. between 1961 and 1975. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assemble unique data linking family …

institutional data on college enrollment and program completion, we find that enrollment falls markedly among students at public two …-year institutions in response to increases in the minimum wage. The largest enrollment effects are seen for those students who are … of students who are unlikely to have been diverted from degree attainment …

boost achievement, these gains emerge only for students who attend lottery schools. Attendance at a coveted Grade A screened …

as the difference in enrollment share black among students and teachers in a district. There were increases in the share …

disadvantaged students to attend private schools of their choice. We exploit random assignment of LSP vouchers at oversubscribed …

needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for …. Students enrolled in the schools designated for closure are eligible for "grandfathering" into the new schools; that is, they … attendance: the grandfathering instrument compares students at schools designated for takeover with students who appear similar …