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Revealing Stereotypes about Immigrant Students to Middle School Teachers in Italy

Alberto Alesina
Michela Carlana
Eliana La Ferrara
Paolo Pinotti
Researchers evaluated the impact of informing middle school teachers in Italy about their implicit stereotypes towards immigrant students on end-of-year grading. Both math and literature teachers eligible to receive feedback before the end-of-the-year grading gave higher grades to immigrant students...
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Texting Students to Help Achieve Their Goals in Canada

Christopher Dobronyi
Philip Oreopoulos
Richard W. Patterson
Uros Petronijevic
Nolan Pope
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Providing Post-Training Assistance to Young Jobseekers to Improve Employment Outcomes in India

Gaurav Chiplunkar
Jeremy Magruder
Researchers are evaluating the impact of providing additional information and resources to those who have completed skills training programs on employment outcomes.
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Improving Access to Information to Facilitate Moves to Opportunity

Researchers added school-quality information onto housing listings on the AffordableHousing.com (formerly GoSection8) website, the largest provider of housing listings for HCV recipients, to evaluate the impact on families search for housing and their residential locations. The researchers found...
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Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues

Francisco Gallego
Ofer Malamud
Cristian (Kiki) Pop-Eleches
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A 20-year Follow-Up to an Early Childhood Stimulation Program in Jamaica

Susan M. Chang-Lopez
Paul Gertler
Sally Grantham-McGregor
James J. Heckman
Rodrigo Pinto
Christel Vermeersch
Susan Walker
Arianna Zanolini

The Impact of Improved Communication on Cal-Grant Take-Up Rates in the United States

Elizabeth Linos
Vikash Reddy
Jesse Rothstein
Researchers evaluated the impact of simplified award letters and different framing and messaging on students’ decision-making in their college selection process and uptake of financial aid. Researchers found that notification letters containing simplified and behaviorally informed language increased...
Participants in the One Summer Chicago program received a summer job and an adult mentor

Scaling and Unpacking a Successful Summer Jobs Program

Marianne Bertrand
Sara Heller
Recent studies have found that summer youth employment programs appear to generate large declines in the rates of violent crime—a significant finding for urban policymakers seeking to create safer, more vibrant cities.