As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …

observations, and student surveys. Although all three types of measures could be biased by unmeasured traits of the students in … predicts performance following random assignment of that teacher to a class of students. Combining our results with those from …

A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that … reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically … from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile …

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 …

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

parents to otherwise similar students, suggesting that downturns affect all students, not just those whose parents lose …-grade reading and on fourth-grade math and reading. Effects are 34 times larger than found when comparing students with displaced …, reduced income and increased distress likely inhibit performance. States experiencing displacement of 1% of workers likely see …

for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children …Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and …'s math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, non-linear changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …