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Impact of a Public School Lottery in the United States

David Deming
Justine Hastings
Thomas Kane
Douglas Staiger
Jeremy Weinstein

Auditing Schools’ Responsiveness to Students with Disabilities in Districts of Choice

Peter Bergman
Isaac McFarlin

Sending Text Messages to Parents to Improve Student Achievement in Middle and High Schools in the United States

Peter Bergman
Eric W. Chan

School Grants and Parents' Education Spending in India

Jishnu Das
Stefan Dercon
James Habyarimana
Pramila Krishnan
Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman
Researchers studied how a school grant program affected learning outcomes and household spending. After the first year of the grant program, students in treatment schools performed significantly better than those in comparison schools, but by the end of the second year, there was no detectable...
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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market

Amira Abulafi
David Deming
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence Katz
Noam Yuchtman
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The Effect of Financial Incentives on Elementary School Test Scores in the United States

Eric Bettinger

Teacher and Student Motivation, Family Participation, and Student Achievement in Rural Udaipur, India

In an ongoing evaluation, researchers are studying the relationship between teacher and student motivation, family participation, and student achievement in rural non-formal education (NFE) centers.

The Impact of Early Childhood Education on Child Development in Karnataka, India

Joshua Dean
Seema Jayachandran