. 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 …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

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 …

In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their … impacts. First, students in small classes are significantly more likely to attend college and exhibit improvements on other …, students who had a more experienced teacher in kindergarten have higher earnings. Third, an analysis of variance reveals …

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 …

coverage for low-income children increases the rate of high school completion and college completion. These estimates are … children in the 1980s and 1990s on their future educational attainment. Our findings indicate that expanding health insurance … robust to only using federal Medicaid expansions, and mostly are due to expansions that occur when the children are older (i …

counties in the U.S. between 1961 and 1975. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assemble unique data linking family …

lead, we examine effects of post-1990 school finance reforms on students' educational attainment and labor market outcomes … high- and low-income districts. Using a state-by-cohort panel design, we find that reforms increased high school completion … and college-going, concentrated among Black students and women, and raised annual earnings. They also increased the return …

investments that we document leads to the question of how students from different backgrounds sort into these different … institutions and programs. We discuss the emerging research showing that lower-SES students, especially in the U.S., are more … policies designed to support success among students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Chapter concludes with some broad …