potential benefits of this innovation are unknown. To present evidence on this, we analyze an experiment in which middle … access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …

public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were … both years of the experiment demonstrate large treatment effects in both years - particularly those with principals who are …

-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more …

a randomized field experiment. High school freshmen were provided monthly financial incentives for meeting an …. Within the design, we compare the effectiveness of varying the recipient of the reward (students or parents) and the … significant impact among students on the threshold of meeting the achievement standard. These students continue to outperform …

interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both … sleep and academic performance. Motivated by theories of cue-based habit formation, our primary intervention couples … intervention increases the share of nights with at least seven hours of sleep by 26 percent and average weeknight sleep by an …

introductory microeconomics between one semester in which students were randomly assigned into the formats and another semester … when students were allowed to choose their format. In each semester we offered the same course with the sections taught at … effect of format. Students in the compressed format of the randomized arm of the study scored -0.19 standard deviations less …

Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fifty traditional public elementary … achievement is -0.042 standard deviations in math and -0.034 standard deviations in reading, per year. Students enrolled in … this, specialized teachers report providing less attention to individual students (relative to non-specialized teachers …

's outcomes. This improvement is observed in both the field experiment and the subsequent large-scale government adoption. We also …

This paper describes the effects of two variants of a virtual college-counseling intervention designed to reduce … informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged students …. Students who were randomly assigned to the program felt more supported during the college application process and applied more …

field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students … based on relative performance on a mathematics exam in order to test the incentive effects of AA, and track study efforts on … an online mathematics website. Consistent with theory, AA increases average human capital investment and exam performance …