We develop and estimate a model of study time choices of students on a social network. The model is designed to exploit … friend characteristics appears important in explaining variation across students in study time and achievement, and …

Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and … about their students' reading achievements by using a randomized controlled trial. We find that the teachers' baseline … beliefs are more important for low-SES students' academic performance, that the intervention makes the teachers update these …

century. While the ultimate goal of initiating project-based learning is to affect students in positive ways, it is important … practices and are bound to have immense influence on the overall learning experience of students. By using the OECD TALIS …The expansion of project-based learning has been advocated for as a solution and reform measure to the problem of rote …

conditional independence assumption and estimation is implemented using a recent double machine learning estimator. The study … sensitivity of estimates to tuning parameter choices in the machine learning part? (ii) How to assess covariate balancing in high …

Studies determining students' success in higher education mostly rely on students' predetermined baseline variables … expand their initial lead remains unclear. We investigate the students' learning growth in a business math course and analyze … development of these differences over time. Whether ex-ante lower-skilled students can catch up or higher-skilled students may …