. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

Millions of high school students who take an Advanced Placement (AP) course in one of over 30 subjects can earn college … that 15 percent of students' AP courses do not result in an AP exam. We predict that up to 32 percent of the AP courses … district exam subsidies on AP exam-taking rates. In fact, students on free and reduced-price lunch (FRL) in the districts that …

In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this … 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 …

Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it … is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a … setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same …

This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building … increasingly relying on lower-ranked instructors for tutorial teaching. …

the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …

This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle … schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic backgrounds of students' households. Utilizing … the administrative data of students from a city in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, we estimated the effects of class closures …

We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human … should teach their students broader skills. …

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large … confinement measures adopted and the availability of class recordings. We use administrative data on four cohorts of students … of students from different enrolment cohorts observed in the same semester of their academic career before and after the …