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 …

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 …

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. …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

differences in reading performance are also taken into account. Using individual-level data on 300,000 15-year-old students in 64 … students' intentions to pursue math-intensive studies and careers is reduced by around 75%, while gender gaps in self … less able to explain the gender gap in intentions to study math than is students' difference in performance between math …

This paper presents a small theoretical model to compare school systems that segregate students by ability ('tracking …') with comprehensive ones, which allow for mixing of differently skilled students into same classes. The outcomes of interest … are the achievement levels of weaker and better students, and the average achievement of all students. In the model, the …

a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in … disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms in early high school in … students that contains a large and diverse set of school qualities, and household incomes, and b) we measure disruption and …