harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of … researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …

availability of data on all teachers and students in North Carolina over a ten-year period allows us to explore them in more detail … effects of changes in class size or to the socio-economics characteristics of students, as measured, for example, by the …

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects). However, the evidence on whether these interactions actually … between teachers and students at this level amplify boys' large underperformance in reading while attenuating the more modest …

access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …

This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern … University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus non-tenure line faculty on student learning. We …-tenure line faculty contribute more or less to lasting student learning than do other faculty. We find consistent evidence that …

informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance learning) on test scores …, but were significantly larger in districts with larger populations of students who are Black, Hispanic or eligible for …

This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long … basic skills apparently led to generally reduced performance by high-achieving students, while an accountability system … other technical subjects. Both types of systems are associated with increased "cramming" by students in college. The results …

treatment effects in education. To begin, we present a simple model of student learning that incorporates permanent as well as … transitory learning gains. Using this model, we demonstrate how the parameter of interest - the persistence of a particular … interventions more generally. Using administrative data that links students and teachers, we construct measures of teacher …