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 … transitioning to a different school as a result of reassignment on test scores, course grades and chronic absenteeism. In contrast …

We measure the effect of district use of federal pandemic relief during the 2022-23 school year for a sample of more …

employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth …: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards with the objective to improve high-school graduation and post … differences, supports this hypothesis. -- Short-, medium- and long-term effects ; after-school programs ; intrinsic and extrinsic …

This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term impacts of an after-school … program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program … activities, complete high-school and enroll in post-secondary education on youths' engagement in risky behaviors, such as …

behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's self-reported drug use while in school, we evaluate whether the program worked …-risk youths as it managed to curb their risky behaviors during high-school and, by doing so, it persistently improved high-school …-half of the risk distribution as it increased their engagement in risky behaviors while in high-school. Negative peer effects …

-risk youth ; resilience ; deviancy training ; deterrence ; primary- and high-school ; post-secondary education ; remedial …