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 …

to be matched with more advantaged students, and we measure the bias this pattern generates in estimates of the impacts … restrict the analysis to schools that assign students to classrooms in a manner statistically indistinguishable from random … advantaged students, a finding that may help explain why the observed form of teacher-student matching persists in equilibrium …

students. However, very little empirical work has to date been completed on this topic. This paper provides the first empirical … every third, fourth, and fifth grader in a large school district over four years, we match students' test score gains and … substantial evidence that higher grading standards benefit students. We find that these effects are not uniform: High …