transitioning to a different school as a result of reassignment on test scores, course grades and chronic absenteeism. In contrast …, increasing the achievement levels of students' peers improves students' math and ELA test scores but harms their ELA course … grades. Test score benefits accrue primarily to students from higher-income families, though students with lower family …

degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …

find any effect of having a female teacher on male students' test scores (math or reading) or female students' reading test … consistent if one takes into account a teacher's academic background in math. -- teacher gender ; student achievement ; random … psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the classroom. Specifically, using data from a …

The success of many students with disabilities (SWDs) depends on access to high-quality general education teachers. Yet … students with and without disabilities. We create two VAM measures: one focusing on teachers' effectiveness in improving … outcomes for SWDs, and one for non-SWDs. We find top-performing teachers for non-SWDs often have relatively lower VAMs for SWDs …

traditional reading and math skills. No Excuses charter schools are sometimes said to focus on relatively motivated high achievers … special needs students that may be underserved. The results show average achievement gains of 0.36 standard deviations in math … and 0.12 standard deviations in reading for each year spent at KIPP Lynn, with the largest gains coming from the LEP, SPED …

additively and interacts with treatment variables. We present identification and estimation methods for parameters of interest in …

. -- gender ; competition ; incentives ; GRE ; high stakes ; low stakes ; test score gap …

. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those … teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which … there were few professional female exemplars other than teachers--and find that female students were more successful when …