public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but … the apparent impact is relatively small. Controlling for school choice using a supply-side instrument (school availability … academic performance is smaller than that implied by simple OLS estimates that do not control for school choice. Finally, the …

clear strategy for dealing with the correlation of unobserved neighborhood quality with both school quality and neighborhood … -- substantially lower than in prior work -- when the average performance of the local school is increased by 5 percent. There is also … evidence of considerable preference heterogeneity. We also show that the full capitalization of school quality into housing …

This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of … enrollements have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substantial regional … differences remain. In particular, in the Southeastern region, girls begin to drop out of school around the third grade. Only half …

, weaker restrictions may be a more effective means of changing behavior. We test this using a school-based commitment savings …

This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of … enrollments have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substan- tial regional … differences remain. In particular, in the Southeastern region, girls begin to drop out of school around the third grade. Only half …