School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

markets with several public and private schools are now pervasive in low- and middle-income countries, prudent policy requires …

; compounded over 5 years of primary schooling, this difference is similar in size to the test score gap between low- and high-income … countries. Second, students learn more in private schools (0.15 sd per year on average), but substantial within-sector variation … in quality means that the effects of reallocating students from public to private schools can range from -0.35sd to +0 …

ratings distribution, decreases adult criminal involvement. Accountability pressures also reduce the propensity of students …

-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked …

identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students … schools improves reading--but not math--performance and it also decreases absenteeism of students who remain in the TPS …