most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal … eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are …

By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China …

sides. The paper estimates how much of China's poverty rate around 1980--near the outset of Deng Xiaoping's pro … China's poverty in 1980 is attributed to the impact of the Maoist path since 1950. Further checks and tests suggest that (if … anything) this is likely to be an underestimate. It took 10-20 years for China's post-reform economy to make up the lost ground …

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 …

remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was … was some widening in reading gaps in those areas). We estimate that high-poverty districts that went remote in 2020 …

We evaluate the long-term effect of a "girl-friendly" primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression … non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start … school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed …

of school discipline on student achievement, educational attainment and adult criminal activity. Using exogenous … variation in school assignment caused by a large and sudden boundary change and a supplementary design based on principal … school that has a one standard deviation higher suspension rate are 15 to 20 percent more likely to be arrested and …

. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job …

school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … attendance rates two school years later from .56 to .60. These attendance gains were driven primarily by outcomes in treatment …