experienced by students outside of school. Chronic stress - due to neighborhood violence, poverty, or family instability - can …, can affect whether performance on standardized tests is a valid measure of students' actual ability. We collect data on … students' stress responses using cortisol samples provided by low-income students in New Orleans. We measure how their cortisol …

experienced by students outside of school. Chronic stress – due to neighborhood violence, poverty, or family instability – can …, can affect whether performance on standardized tests is a valid measure of students' actual ability. We collect data on … students' stress responses using cortisol samples provided by low-income students in New Orleans. We measure how their cortisol …

. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …

. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …

schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This …

schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This …

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …