This paper examines the potential influence of school reform policies on the high school
dropout rate. We summarize a diverse set of reports on American education that recommend …

Young Americans are heavily reliant on debt and have clear financial literacy shortcomings.
In this paper, we study the effects of exposure to financial training on debt outcomes in early …

This article examines the effects of academic tracking in secondary schools on educational
stratification and considers how that tracking may affect levels and dispersions of academic …

This paper suggests that students' opportunities to learn may be stratified both between and
within schools: Schools serving a more affluent and able clientele may offer more rigorous …

BACKGROUND Since BidwelΓs (1965) seminal analysis of the school as a formal organi
zation, organizational studies in education have continually noted the rel ative absence of …

There is much public discussion but almost no evidence on the effects of high school
curriculum on postsecondary education and on success in the labor market. I use the large …

Using national transcript data, the authors examine inequality in access to an advanced
curriculum in high school and assess the consequences of curricular intensity on test scores …

In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced
high school math on labor market outcomes. The pilot scheme reduced the costs of …

Abstract Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) jobs have grown in
importance in the labor market in recent decades, and they are widely seen as the jobs of …

This paper considers the potential impact of the recent recommendations for raising
standards in American schools on a population at risk, that is, those students likely to leave …