their average effectiveness. We conduct a large-scale program evaluation of campaigns from 174 public health organizations …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes initiated by instructors. These gender differences cannot be … explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. To understand the mechanisms underlying …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

Twenty-five cohorts of medical students were asked in their first and fourth year of school to estimate contemporaneous … physician income in six different specialties. The students' income estimation errors varied systematically over time and cross … absolute value of the estimation errors was 26 percent of actual income. Students were 35 percent more accurate when estimating …

variation from a Colombian financial aid reform boosting the share of low-income students at an elite university. Combining … college records and original survey data, I study how diversity affects high-income students' social networks, perceptions … low-income peers caused high-income students to diversify their social networks, have more accurate perceptions of the …

We use unique data to examine how college students from low income families form expectations about academic ability … characterize beliefs. At the time of entrance, students tend to substantially discount the possibility of bad grade performance …, students update their beliefs in a manner which takes into account both initial beliefs and new information, with heterogeneity …

We explore the extent to which schools manipulate the composition of students in the test-taking pool in order to …

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