colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

students graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 to identify siblings. We follow the academic career of these …

scores rightward, moving students into higher quartiles of the state SAT score distribution. Boston’s charter high schools …

of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …

score gap between these students that cannot be explained by differences in individual and family characteristics. Moreover …, I show how this gap evolves over the test score distribution and how the least favorably-endowed students fare. My … when comparing only students whose parents migrated from the same country of origin. …

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from … different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students’ and schools’ locations to construct … anything, effects tend to be slightly more positive for disadvantaged groups, such as students from low-income families. Taken …