-achieving students from more and less affluent neighborhoods. Seats are allocated based on prior achievement with 70 percent reserved for … design, we find no effect on test scores or college attendance for students from high- or low-SES neighborhoods and positive … effects on student reports of their experiences. For students from low-SES neighborhoods, we estimate significant negative …

less than those reported for schooling of children. However, our internal rate of return estimates are very sensitive to …

Because a significant portion of U.S. students lacks critical mathematic skills, schools across the country are … skills and tests designed specifically to target pre- algebra and algebra skills. We find that students randomly assigned to … computer-aided instruction score at least 0.17 of a standard deviation higher on a pre- algebra/algebra test than students …

former students were in their prime working years. …

We evaluate the effect of performance-based scholarship programs for postsecondary students on student time use and … effort and whether these effects are different for students we hypothesize may be more or less responsive to incentives. To … do so, we administered a time-use survey as part of a randomized experiment in which community college students in New …