set out the comparison of similar students undergoing alternative progression rules, and to shed light on whether, and to … across curricular tracks, picturing at best – depending on the data employed – a marginal improvement for students in … academic schools. We instead find sharp negative effects of the reform in technical and vocational schools, where the students …

Students of poor families invest much less than rich families in college education. To assess the role of financing … students. I propose a novel identification strategy that relies on bunching at federal Stafford loan limits and differences …-income students. Making public colleges tuition-free would substantially reduce student debt, but it would disproportionately benefit …

which the test scores of students attending high-foreclosure schools suffer, even among students not directly experiencing … foreclosure. They also explore the impact on individual test scores of inflows of new students to a school during the school year …

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

track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face …

students to generally exhibit stronger "sensitivity" to grades. We examine student persistence in a wide spectrum of academic … make students more responsive to grades received in it, rather than the other way around as is commonly suggested. …

higher education students by low-interest loans. We show that this reform had a large impact on education choices of … secondary school students, lowering their enrolments in college-preparing tracks and increasing the share of students … that secondary school students respond to the modes of higher education financing well ahead of their graduation, and that …

students in the Netherlands. The reform eliminated a universalsubsidy for higher education students and replaced it by a low … students’ decision making, decreasing the share of secondary school studentsfollowing college-preparing tracks by 6 … entrants.We show that secondary school students respond to the costs of higher education well aheadof their graduation, which …