-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked …

efficiency and distributional impact of changing the share of students enrolling in honors classrooms. Using a sorting model … where students choose tracks by course but schools influence the share choosing honors, we show that administrators' optimal … specifications, we find that smaller honors tracks (20%-30% of students) yield moderate performance gains for the top quintile (~.05 …

The increased popularity of college Grade Forgiveness policies, which allow students to retake classes and substitute … first to ask whether such policies benefit students and how. To answer these questions, we use student-level admissions and … Grade Forgiveness significantly incentivizes students, especially students with the strongest academic preparation, to take …

completion and earnings for all students. We find evidence of meaningful complementarity between student ability and college … students to higher quality colleges …

- assigned STBF awards boost bachelor's (BA) degree completion for students targeting four-year schools by about 8 points. Degree …-generation students, and for students with relatively weak academic preparation …

symptoms, feeling sad and losing interest in usual activities for at least two consecutive weeks, among high school students … below, by over 15%. Coefficient sizes are similar when comparison groups are restricted to students engaging in correlated …

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 … (89%) of students who fail the 10th grade mathematics examination retake it. However, although we find that low …

subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to …-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …