predict longer-run effects on high-school completion and proxies for college-going—above and beyond their effects on test …

entering high school from very poor social-economic backgrounds. The program includes proactive mentoring to each student … housing projects before and after the introduction of the program, high school graduation and post secondary enrollment rates …

acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …

experience earnings gains of about 10 percent relative to high school graduates with no college degree, conditional on employment …

We investigate decision-making and the potential for social learning among school administrators in the market for … school reform consulting services. Specifically, we estimate whether public schools are more likely to choose given … Comprehensive School Reform service providers if their "peer" schools--defined by common governance or geography--have performed …

students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … characteristic: high school class rank. We find that high school characteristics do affect student performance, and these effects … school characteristics decay over time. …