improves academic outcomes. We estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative data on a high … barely above and below high school admission thresholds. Results indicate that while peer quality improves significantly … evidence suggests that the returns to high school quality are driven by teacher quality, rather than peer quality or class size …

effects on educational attainment measured by high school completion, college entrance and completion. A new method developed …

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I … have better academic achievement, within-school short-run increases in peer achievement improve outcomes only at high …-achievement schools. Short-run (direct) peer quality accounts for only one tenth of school value-added on average, but at least one …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using within-school and …

-teacher relationships as well as students' overall satisfaction in school, and lessens teachers' fatigue. We find, however, no effect on …

whether the abilities and specialty preferences of a medical school class affect a student's academic achievement in medical … school and his choice of specialty. We mitigate the selection problem by including school-specific fixed effects, and show … school-specific fixed effects are added to control for the endogeneity of a peer group. We find no evidence that peer effects …

Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools … integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of Education are very broad, here we focus more narrowly on how school … Texas students, disentangles racial composition effects from other aspects of school quality and from differences in student …

and school-by-grade fixed effects in addition to observable family and school characteristics. The analysis also addresses …. Moreover, students throughout the school test score distribution appear to benefit from higher achieving schoolmates. On the …