immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

We explore the extent to which schools manipulate the composition of students in the test-taking pool in order to …

public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were …

This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long …-term performance. Using exceptional data from a large highly-selective state university, we relate school accountability pressure in … high school to a student's university-level grades and study habits. We exploit a change in the state's accountability …

students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects). However, the evidence on whether these interactions actually …. However, because the middle-school teachers in most academic subjects are female, these results also suggest that the gender … dynamics between teachers and students at this level amplify boys' large underperformance in reading while attenuating the more …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

the world. This paper describes a school-based randomized trial in over two-hundred New York City public schools designed …

received in childhood. We assess whether this is also true for schooling inputs. Using matched Florida birth and school … administrative records, we estimate the causal effect of school quality on the gender gap in educational outcomes by contrasting …-family variation in school quality arising from family moves. Investigating middle school test scores, absences and suspensions, we …

takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch …Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is … the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has …