field experiment in which we sent 1,248 fictitious, but realistic, resumes to real job openings. We find that applicants …

Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and … about their students' reading achievements by using a randomized controlled trial. We find that the teachers' baseline … beliefs are more important for low-SES students' academic performance, that the intervention makes the teachers update these …

experiment is much more positive than their students' evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a …

We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender … attitudes, such as self-confidence and risk aversion. Students were invited to undertake a midterm exam under a tournament … scheme having as a prize some bonus points to add to the final grade. Students competed in pairs of equal predicted ability …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students … students of low and medium ability gain on average 0.2 SD units of achievement from switching from ability mixing to three …-way tracking. Their dropout rate is reduced by 15 percentage points (relative to a mean of 0.6). High-ability students are …

-regulation among sixth and seventh-grade students in primary schools in North Macedonia (about 33,000 students across 350 schools). The … results of this interventions are mixed. Exposed students report improvements in self-regulation, in particular the … perseverance-of-effort facet of grit, relative to students in a control condition. Impacts on students are larger when both …

promote healthier sleep habits. Toward this end, we conducted a field experiment with college students, providing them …

endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than …

Using data from a Canadian field experiment on the financial barriers to higher education, we estimate the distribution … of the value of financial aid for prospective students. Our results point out that a considerable share of prospective … students are affected by credit constraints. We find that most of the individuals are willing to pay a sizable interest premium …