The rapid rise in e-cigarette use rates among high school students in the United States is a significant source of … on the demand for vaping products by high school students. The findings from this study provide strong evidence that …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering …

increasingly important. We take advantage of a natural experiment to evaluate the causal effects of failing a high-stakes test on … examinations, states divide a continuous performance measure into dichotomous categories, so students with essentially identical … performance may have different outcomes. We find that, for low-income urban students on the margin of passing, failing the 10th …

informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged students …. Students who were randomly assigned to the program felt more supported during the college application process and applied more … intermediate outcomes were larger for the types of students we anticipated would most need additional support during the college …

introductory microeconomics between one semester in which students were randomly assigned into the formats and another semester … when students were allowed to choose their format. In each semester we offered the same course with the sections taught at … effect of format. Students in the compressed format of the randomized arm of the study scored -0.19 standard deviations less …

public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were … both years of the experiment demonstrate large treatment effects in both years – particularly those with principals who are …

An important goal of community colleges is to prepare students for the labor market. But are students aware of the … labor market outcomes in different majors? And how much do students weigh labor market outcomes when choosing a major? In … this study we find that less than 40% of a sample of community college students in California rank broad categories of …