first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …

We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on … parental recommendation affects students’ beliefs on their comparative advantage in math with respect to literature in a gender … less confident in their relative ability in math compared to literature when they must interact with male students in areas …

students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …-added. Results suggest that parents select schools that are specifically effective in increasing their children's achievement …Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a …

This paper studies whether school-based financial education has spillover effects from children to parents. Leveraging … data from a large-scale experiment with public high schools in Peru and credit bureau records on the parents of the youth … effects on parental financial behavior within disadvantaged households. Among parents from poorer households, the treatment …

estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects …

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a … rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of … the CLASS, are associated with higher test scores. Parents recognize better teachers, but do not change their behaviors …

We investigate whether the academic performance of non-eligible students - in an institutional setting of full … compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to misbehaving students. The hypothesis is thus that special education … resources might dampen the negative externalities associated with misbehaving students, and thus work to improve the performance …