immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

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 …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students … both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina …

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 …

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 …

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 …

as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …