the impact of flip charts on the relative performance of students in flip chart and other subjects across schools with and …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …

instructional expenditure categories influence graduation and first-year persistence rates of undergraduate students … marginal effects are higher for students at institutions with lower entrance test scores and higher Pell Grant expenditures per …

skills. Students randomly assigned to computer-aided instruction score 0.17 of a standard deviation higher on pre …-algebra/algebra tests than students randomly assigned to traditional instruction. We hypothesize that the effectiveness arises from … increased individualized instruction as the effects appear larger for students in larger classes and in classes with high …

to test whether textbook consumers are forward-looking. The data strongly support the view that students are forward … students buy their textbooks, they correctly take into account the probability that they will not be able to resell their books … suggest that students are sufficiently forward-looking that publishers could not raise revenues by accelerating current …

foreign students, little is known about their impact on the educational process. Nevertheless, undergraduates frequently … complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their … understanding of the material. This paper addresses the question that is at the heart of these complaints: Do foreign-born teaching …

their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … is a public good where congestion effects are potentially important. Because the optimal class size is larger for behaved-students … better students. This selection may help explain why Catholic schools out-perform public schools even though expulsion rates …

, with about 3 percent of Michigan students and 10 percent of kindergartners using other options. Second, most of this was … among higher income and White families, highlighting important heterogeneity by students' existing attachment to public …

intervention, respectively: 1) teaching, and 2) providing financial incentives to learners. In theory, teaching and learner … predicted that the two would be substitutes, we instead find they are complements. The combination of teaching and incentive …