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High School College-Conduciveness and Its Association with the Top Ten Percent Students’ Academic Profiles
High school college-conducive resources shape students’ college readiness, which may explain the relative disadvantage racialized minority and low-income students face in accessing selective universities. Texas Top Ten Percent Plan (TTP) aims to bridge this gap by conditioning admission on class rank, which accounts for between-school differences. However, under policy complementarity theory,… more →
Tutor Traits and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Tutors are increasingly central to school-based instruction, with the potential to personalize learning at scale. Little is known about which tutor characteristics predict effectiveness, limiting providers' and schools' recruiting, hiring, and retention strategies. Using random assignment of tutors in a high-dosage elementary-grade online literacy tutoring program, we examine how literacy… more →
Non-traditional Student Advising Before College: Lessons from Navigate Reconnect
Prospective college students benefit from tailored advising and guidance about whether, where, and how to enroll. Support for college planning drops sharply after students leave high school, however, leaving non-traditional students largely on their own. We study Navigate Reconnect, a Tennessee advising program that intends to fill this gap. We evaluate how Navigate Reconnect access and… more →
The Impact of International Students on US Colleges: Higher Education as a Service Export
Between 2003 and 2016, international enrollment in US higher education nearly doubled. We examine how trade shocks in education affect public universities’ decision-making. We construct a shift-share instrument exploiting institutions’ historical networks with different origins of international students, income growth, and exchange-rate fluctuations. Contrary to claims that US-born students… more →
Do Civic Infrastructures Predict Student Outcomes? Comparing Grassroots and Professional Education Nonprofits
Local civic infrastructures—the networks of organizations, relations, and community resources supporting schools—can shape education policy and practice, yet evidence of their relationship to student outcomes remains limited. We examine this relationship using a novel panel dataset of US education nonprofits from 2010 to 2019, geocoded and linked to over 10,000 school districts.
Estimating the Expenditures Associated with Special Education: Evidence from Michigan
Using a 13-year panel of school districts in Michigan, this paper estimates the average expenditures associated with different disability category labels. Increasing the number of students with disabilities by 1 student in the average school district is associated with an increase in expenditures between $1,998 for students with specific learning disabilities to more than a $23,000 increase in… more →
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