years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased … national tests 1-2 years later, with no differential effect by pre-ability level or gender. Our study is particularly relevant …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher … average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The evidence points to students making pre-college choices that caused … this divergence. Using linked survey-administrative data, we present evidence consistent with students being averse to …

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first-time students’ success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

female students’ interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …’ programming skills and on their awareness of gender differences in the workforce. However, it did not seem to affect girls …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …

are and which students are at risk of dropping out. We develop an early detection system (EDS) using administrative …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …