The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

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

. We combine Spring 2021 state standardized test score data with comprehensive data on schooling in the 2020-21 school year …, but were significantly larger in districts with larger populations of students who are Black, Hispanic or eligible for …

This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long …-term performance. Using exceptional data from a large highly-selective state university, we relate school accountability pressure in … high school to a student's university-level grades and study habits. We exploit a change in the state's accountability …

students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects). However, the evidence on whether these interactions actually …, because the middle-school teachers in most academic subjects are female, these results also suggest that the gender dynamics … between teachers and students at this level amplify boys' large underperformance in reading while attenuating the more modest …

public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high … school student survivors as adults in their twenties and early thirties. Our data on school shooting events is from a recent …, comprehensive database of school shootings compiled by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The analytic dataset contains …

stigmatize suspended students and expose them to the criminal justice system at a young age. On the other hand, strict discipline … acts as a deterrent and limits harmful spillovers of misbehavior onto other students. This paper estimates the net impact … of school discipline on student achievement, educational attainment and adult criminal activity. Using exogenous …