informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

ratings distribution, decreases adult criminal involvement. Accountability pressures also reduce the propensity of students …

; compounded over 5 years of primary schooling, this difference is similar in size to the test score gap between low- and high-income … countries. Second, students learn more in private schools (0.15 sd per year on average), but substantial within-sector variation … in quality means that the effects of reallocating students from public to private schools can range from -0.35sd to +0 …

markets with several public and private schools are now pervasive in low- and middle-income countries, prudent policy requires …

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …

-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked …