-random distribution of teachers and students among classrooms within schools. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials affect … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …

population of households whose children attend public schools in Florida. Girls growing up in a boy-biased family score 3 … those of their children, supporting the hypothesis that preferences transmitted through the family impact children behavior …

for identifiable subgroups of students. Children of parents whose choices revealed a strong preference for academic … children of parents who forfeit the most in terms of utility gains from proximity and racial match to choose a school with … quality experienced significant gains in test scores as a result of attending their chosen school, while children whose …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …

schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This …

Students receive abundant information about their educational performance, but how this information affects future …-mandated standardized tests. On these tests, students receive a score and a label that summarizes their performance. Using a regression …-discontinuity design, we find persistent effects of earning a more positive label on the college-going decisions of urban, low-income …

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …