-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that these matching effects are … of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred specification. Further …, universities appear to have responded to Prop 209 by investing more in their students, explaining between 23-64% of the graduation …

Study (NPSAS), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We show that this treatment of assets provides an implicit … subsidy worth thousands of dollars annually to students from families with above-median incomes. White students receive larger … subsidies relative to Black students and Hispanic students with similar family incomes, and this gap in subsidies is associated …

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 …

mother reachers her late twenties, she appears to have only slightly more children, is only slightly more likely to be single …

students who survive them, highlighting the impact of indiscriminate, high-fatality incidents. Initially, we focus on test …, such as those that occurred at Sandy Hook and Columbine, have considerable adverse effects on students exposed to them. We …

This paper investigates whether preschool children exposed to Sesame Street when it began in 1969 experienced improved …. The results indicate that Sesame Street improved school readiness, particularly for boys and children living in …