. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the … likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM …

the numbers of students who score at or above specified proficiency levels in various subjects. Accountability systems … based on these metrics often provide incentives for teachers and principals to target children near current proficiency … levels for extra attention, but these same systems provide weak incentives to devote extra attention to students who are …

This paper examines the impact of public health insurance expansions through both Medicaid and SCHIP on children … time and across ages in children's health insurance eligibility. Using this approach, we find that test scores in reading …, but not math, increased for those children affected at birth by increased health insurance eligibility. A 50 percentage …

We estimate the effect of education on lifetime income in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in …

We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college … education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s … suggest large effects of family income on enrollments. For example, we find that a 10 percent increase in family income is …

with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which …-added methodology: they compare outcomes for students passing through either type of school controlling for achievement levels at the … children only enter secondary school at age 11, these effects are likely due to selection bias. Careful choice of treatment and …