focus our attention on student outliers. Students whose first-year college average is far below expectations (divers) have a … 'get rich' quickly. In contrast, students who exceed expectations (thrivers) express more philanthropic goals, are purpose …

primary and middle school students' test scores in math, Hebrew, and English. One standard deviation improvement in … doesn't vary with students' socio-economic background, is highly non-linear, increases sharply for superintendents in the …

It is difficult to measure teaching quality at the postsecondary level because students typically "self-select" their … decisions. We exploit the random assignment of college students to professors in a large body of required coursework to examine … in contemporaneous and follow-on related courses, but the effects are quite heterogeneous across subjects. Students of …

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 starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students … of peer ability for most two-year and four-year colleges in the United States- the average PSAT of enrolled students. We … between students who start at two-year versus four-year institutions is explained by differences in peers, leaving room for …

? ii) To what extent do schools contribute to their students' academic success? To answer these questions, we model … students' preferences and derive demand for each school by taking each student's feasible set of schools into account. We …We find that students infer the quality of a school from its selectivity and past performance on the university …