neighborhoods with schools that have 1.5 percentage point higher proficiency rate on state exams. We use data from the experiment to …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to … experiment across seven colleges to evaluate the algorithm's effects on students. Placement rates into college-level courses …

first experiment designed to elicit people's preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, where 2,000 Americans …

schools close. We run a randomized trial of low-technology interventions - SMS messages and phone calls - with parents to …-run implications for the role of technology and parents as partial educational substitutes when schooling is disrupted. …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to … experiment across seven colleges to evaluate the algorithm's effects on students. Placement rates into college-level courses …

known about whether disparities in access to technology are partly responsible. Data from the first-ever field experiment … involving the random provision of free computers to low-income community college students for home use are used to explore … whether home computers are beneficial to minority students. I find that minority students receiving free computers achieved …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … whether this impedes educational achievement by conducting the largest-ever field experiment that randomly provides free home … computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational …

the first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access … field experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher … colleges for low-income community college students.  This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students …There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational … attending a large community college in Northern California were randomly selected to receive free computers and were followed …