field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students … for the majority of disadvantaged students targeted by the policy, by mitigating so-called "discouragement effects." The …

Many U.S. students arrive on college campus lacking the skills expected for college-level work. As state leaders seek … course requirements. Tennessee has taken a novel approach by allowing students to complete their remediation requirements in … the first year of college and allowed students to earn a modest 4.5 additional college credits by their second year. We …

In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase … access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using …

-year graduation. Importantly, we take advantage of a unique institutional feature of the Texas higher education system to control for …

college preparatory work for high school juniors and seniors in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The trial involved 238 students …

activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records …

learning outcomes. Our setting is middle-school grades in urban India, where a lottery provided winning students with a voucher … students, but the relative gain was much greater for academically-weaker students because their rate of learning in the control …

-term incentives to reinforce a minimum degree of mandatory participation. The program began in 2001 for entering Grade 9 students … projects. In all three locations, participation rates quickly rose, to more than 85 percent, even though parents and students … were required to commit in writing to conditions and high expectations of the program. Comparing students from other …

We conducted a field experiment in 165 high-poverty New York City middle schools to help students navigate a complex … high school choice process and access higher-performing schools. Students in treatment schools were given a customized one … changed student application behavior in ways that led to more matches to higher-performing schools. While treatment students …