It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all … OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact …, the difference between students who had attended for more than one year and those who had not attended at all averaged 54 …

At some point in their child’s education, many parents have considered whether it would be worth the expense to enrol … their child in a private school. For parents, private schools may offer a particular kind of instruction that is not … available in public schools. If private schools also attract higher-performing students and better teachers than public schools …

students in 1997 to examine their schooling and employment status in 2000. The findings demonstrate that: (1) attendance at …

graduates instead of the high unobserved ability of students who choose to attend post-secondary education. To this end, the … experienced greater disruptions, children's educational attainment became less correlated with that of their fathers and more … selection of high-ability students into higher education. The analysis also demonstrates that these results are unlikely to be …

of their personal attributes and human capital endowments, and are more likely to be males and have parents in the public …