,000 per charter school enrollee. We further show that competition drives the aggregate gains; test score impacts on students …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

Much research shows that students take account of their perceived comparative advantage in mathematics relative to …

school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult … for ability or achievement and across a range of countries, ages, and types of educational institutions, students that are … into other educational phenomena such as the extent to which students benefit from high ability peers and the presence of a …

Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers …, however, argue that contemporaneous test scores are a poor proxy for their permanent influence on students. This paper … test scores with subsequent test scores in VA estimation. We find that students assigned to high long-run VA teachers fare …

using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …