We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and …

composition of student bodies. We study how these integration policies interact, using a heterogeneous agent overlapping … effects. At the public school level, we simulate an integration policy that randomly shifts students across schools. For … college, we consider an income-based affirmative action policy. Public school integration weakens the link between residential …

Hunger and malnourishment can adversely affect students' performance by lowering their effort and cognition during … classroom. Using individual level data on the performance of students in a cognitive task both before and after the extension of … cognitive performance of students by 13% to 16%. This result is robust to unobserved heterogeneity in school quality and student …

, such as performance. We address this question through a field experiment in an educational setting. We study the causal … impact of mindfulness meditation on academic performance through a randomized evaluation of a well-known 8-week mindfulness … and non-cognitive skills. However, it takes time before students' performance can benefit from mindfulness meditation: we …

) have all the relevant information they need to make proper decisions. We address this issue by exploiting the data … information on students' pre-test enrollment intentions, their final track choices and their performances in the upper secondary … Arianna. However, students (and their parents) are likely to revise their initial choice when new information on their true …

Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy …'s role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household …

high socioeconomic status (SES). We examine the effect of combining increased instruction time with information to teachers … beliefs are more important for low-SES students' academic performance, that the intervention makes the teachers update these …' beliefs are subject to information friction and Bayesian learning. …

A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but … rich and longitudinal data on subjective beliefs together with randomized feedback about individual performance on an … achievement test. On average, the performance feedback reduces the relative role of priors on posteriors and shifts substantial …