provide low-quality education. In this paper I examine this claim using a 1947 reform that increased the minimum school …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school …

pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We … fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a suite of such programs targeted to underrepresented high school students at …

Partly in response to increased testing and accountability, states and districts have been raising the minimum school … no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …

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

combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school …This paper tests the hypothesis that compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until … a specified birthday, induce a relationship between the years of schooling and age at school entry. Variation in school …

. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve …