Aiming to provide better education facilities and improve the educational attainment of poor rural students, China …. To accompany the policy, boarding facilities have been constructed that allow (mandate) primary school-aged children to … and investment programmes on the educational performance of students. Drawing on a unique dataset that records both the …

tracking of students in secondary schools. Many European countries have moved from a system of tracking students early to one … where students stay in comprehensive schools until a fairly late age. Britain moved from a system of extensive and early …, students would take an exam at age eleven, which determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school …

with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which …-added methodology: they compare outcomes for students passing through either type of school controlling for achievement levels at the … children only enter secondary school at age 11, these effects are likely due to selection bias. Careful choice of treatment and …