Cold Calling and Web Postings: Do They Improve Students’ Preparation and Learning in Statistics?
Getting students to prepare well for class is a common challenge faced by instructors all over the world.
Research
The Amherst Telementoring Program for High-Achieving, Low-Income Students: Results of a Pilot Study with a Randomized Controlled Trial
This paper reports the results of a pilot study, using a randomized controlled trial to study the effects of the Amherst Telementoring Program for high-achieving students from relatively poor families
Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
We study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers.
The Underutilized Potential of Teacher-to-Parent Communication: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Parental involvement is correlated with student performance, though the causal relationship is less well established.
Merit Aid, College Quality, and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy
We analyze a Massachusetts merit aid program that gives highscoring students tuition waivers at in-state public colleges with lower graduation rates than available alternative colleges.
How the Education Spendthrifts Get Away With It
The article discusses the author's opinions on educational spending within political debates, focusing on the public's lack of knowledge about how much money goes into education and where the money co
The Relationship Between Siblings’ College Choices: Evidence from One Million SAT-Taking Families
Recent empirical work has demonstrated the importance both of educational peer effects and of various factors that affect college choices.
Women at the Top: The Pipeline Reconsidered
Women and Leadership in Higher Education is the first volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will be published in upcoming years to inform leadersh
The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium
In 2010, the Gulf Coast experienced the largest oil spill, the greatest mobilization of spill response resources, and the first Gulf-wide deepwater drilling moratorium in U.S. history.
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
We consider a model of technological learning under which people “learn through noticing”: they choose which input dimensions to attend to and subsequently learn about from available data.
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