results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …, while the differences between general and vocational schools are mainly explained by family social status. …

We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There … is substantial variation in teacher and student quality within schools. Over the period spanning grades 11 and 12, being … families where only fathers earn, those where both parents earn negatively predict student effectiveness, while religion, caste …

Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective …, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and …-girl schools. These findings are based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from …

middle schools in urban China. The identification of peer effects relies on idiosyncratic variation in the proportion of … migrant students across classes within schools. We find that the proportion of migrant students in each class has a small, and … enrolled in small classes and local students enrolled in lower-ranked schools benefit most in terms of test scores from having …

greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …