Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … cutoffs for the most selective of these schools move from above-average schools to schools with students drawn from the … extreme upper tail. Exam school students can also expect to study with fewer nonwhite classmates than unsuccessful applicants …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

at the expense of students who are most diffiult to teach, including limited English proficiency (LEP) and special … education (SPED) students, as well as students with low baseline achievement levels. We use applicant lotteries to evaluate the … special needs students that may be underserved. The results show average achievement gains of 0.36 standard deviations in math …

school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …

needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for … schools. Students enrolled in schools designated for closure are eligible for "grandfathering" into the new schools; that is … attendance: the grandfathering instrument compares students at schools designated for takeover with students who appear similar …

, rather than cheating by either students or teachers. Estimates of a causal model for achievement with two endogenous …

Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports … students offered both services and incentives than for those offered services alone. No program had an effect on men's grades …