negative effects on achievement of students who just qualify for the highest academic track and positive effects on achievement … of students from the top of the baseline ability distribution. These results reconcile contrasting findings from previous …

engagement, having friends, and students' personality. It seems therefore that the concerns that parents of lottery losers …, attitudes towards school, awareness of parents, behavior inside school, behavior outside school, school satisfaction, civic … express about their children's school assignment are based on the characteristics of schools, teachers and peers and not on …