If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers’ bias in…
This report tells how civic leaders from Boston, MA, Chattanooga, TN, Pickens County, GA, and Yonkers, NY, are pursuing an ambitious…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
Do signals of high aptitude shape the course of collegiate study? We apply a regression discontinuity design to understand how college…
Two-stage examinations consist of a first stage in which students work individually as they typically do in examinations (stage 1),…
Nearly a quarter of 7th-12th-graders in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) attend one of three exam schools, considered among the highest…
Data on millions of SAT-takers show only half retake the exam, with even lower retake rates among low income and underrepresented minority…
This paper provides evidences of heterogeneous human-capital externality using CHIP 2002, 2007 and 2013 data from urban China. After…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
Objective: We examined the between-school psychometric properties of Tripod School Climate Index (TSCI) scores. Methods: Reliability and…