Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Through this 2014 grant, MPES continued to provide doctoral students from a variety of disciplines the knowledge, expertise, and technical skills to conduct rigorous empirical research that is also usable and useful in the policy and practice worlds.

In this project, the researchers proposed to use a longitudinal data set to assess the impact of school size on student achievement. Previous studies found that small schools were associated in some settings had improved student outcomes, especially among disadvantaged youth. Although this prior research attempted to isolate the impact of smaller schools, they could not completely disentangle the impact of small schools from other confounding factors correlated with school size such as commu...

This project is exploring the relationship between children's health status and education outcomes. The goal of the project is to determine whether these improvements in children's health are related to academic achievement among low-income students.