socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across … schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate the academic and behavioral effects of being reassigned to a … different school and, separately, of shifts in peer characteristics. We rule out all but substantively small effects of …

students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor … 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 …

School assignment policies are a key lever to increase access to high performing schools and to promote racial and … socioeconomic integration. For over 50 years, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) has bussed students of … school for applicants to the METCO program. I compare those with and without offers to enroll in suburban schools. I use a …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational …

designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before … the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four comparison schools by matching based on achievement and also on … year for students in the program schools. Supplementary event study and synthetic control analyses to detect year …

We measure the effect of district use of federal pandemic relief during the 2022-23 school year for a sample of more …: differences in state Title I funding formulas, estimation error in Census local area poverty rates and differences in eligibility …

For much of the 20th century, British students were tracked into higher-track (for the "top" 20%) or lower-track (for … provide low-quality education. In this paper I examine this claim using a 1947 reform that increased the minimum school … leaving age from 14 to 15. First, I show that over 95% of the students affected by the reform ("compliers") attended lower …

, grades, and persistence. I estimate that two thirds of the plan's 9.1 point impact on top-decile students' probability of … attending a flagship university was due to information rather than mechanical effects. Students induced to enroll are more … likely to come from low- income high schools, and academically outperform the students that they displace. These effects …