I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on students. We theorize that if budget …

teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both students' cognitive and noncognitive skill. Results …

Using value-added models, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socioemotional development (SED) by …

allow for much more credible causal claims. Focusing on studies of students in the United States, this paper briefly …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when …

In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on achievement tests, leading … to large differences in the school environments to which students of differing initial levels of achievement are exposed … differences by assigning the weakest students to schools that provide the least value-added …

.67 percentage-point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty; effects are much more pronounced for children from low-income …-representative data on children born between 1955 and 1985 and followed through 2011. We use the timing of the passage of court …

-city schools that provided teacher training in addition to payments to eleventh- and twelfth- grade students and their teachers for … passing scores on Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Affected students passed more AP exams, were more likely to remain in college … beyond their first and second years, and earned higher wages. Effects are particularly pronounced for Hispanic students who …