students; we find that while some students experience discount rates of up to 5.9 percentage points over four years in college …, others must pay up to 3.8 percentage points more than they would have without the regulation. Students who receive financial …

black students’ education levels in terms of years of schooling, while having a modest increase on white students’ years of …

Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are … educational expectations using data from a German randomized controlled trial in which students in high schools were given … of information increases intended college enrollment for students from a non-academic family background, both two to …

participation, attendance, and academic achievement. In 2003, New York City made school breakfast free for all students regardless … increases in breakfast participation both for students who experienced a decrease in the price of breakfast and for free …-lunch eligible students who experienced no price change. The latter suggests that universal provision may alter behavior through …

similar patterns of treatment effect heterogeneity within demographic groups, and that gains for disadvantaged students are …

A growing number of students around the world receive private tutoring in academic subjects. Such tutoring is widely …

-achieving students to their testing pools, altering accountability incentives. I provide evidence that the elimination of exemptions … caused significant test score increases for initially low-achieving students and narrowed the black-white test gap. I show …-achieving students because Texas’ accountability standard was low relative to the skills of its students. …

the 15,737 students admitted to a special program ostensibly for academically and intellectually gifted children. I …-risk students, as determined by their 3rd grade predicted probabilities, would lead to a 25% reduction in the total cohort dropout …