the two earliest-adopting states, nearly half of all students were induced into testing, and 40-45% of them earned scores … mandates, with no effect on overall attendance. I conclude that a large number of high-ability students appear to dramatically … human capital investment for a substantial number of students …

freshmen students following Georgia's HOPE scholarship program. How did HOPE affect the selectivity of colleges attended by … Georgia's freshmen students? Did it induce Georgia's freshmen students who would have otherwise attended more selective out …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

versions of a program designed to help probationary students at community college succeed in school. One version increased the … average number of credits earned, the proportion of students who earned a grade point average of “C” or higher, and the …

. As a main motivation for these reforms the policymakers cited strategic flaws of the rules: students had strong … incentives to game the system, which caused dramatic consequences for non-strategic students. However, almost none of the new … manipulate. Simultaneously, the admission to each school became strategy-proof to a larger set of students, making the schools …

received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a quot …Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … effect on enrolment rates into higher education. We find that the reform had a small positive but statistically insignificant …

affects students' schooling decisions after graduation from junior high school. By using a longitudinal dataset of 2348 … students in two counties, we use ordinary least squares and propensity score matching to evaluate the impact of this program on … find that the effects of the program among middle-income students are stronger compared with those of other groups. And we …

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family … information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …