cohorts, while family income plays little role in determining high school completion in either cohort. Most interestingly, we …

Studies based on instrumental variable techniques suggest that the value of a high school education is large for …-secondary education. To help Â…fill this gap, I measure the value-added of a year of high-school mathematics for university-bound students … using a recent Ontario secondary school reform. The subject speciÂ…ficity of this reform makes it possible to identify the …

estimates of this impact of strikes using an empirical strategy that controls for fixed student characteristics at the school … largest impact is on math scores: 29 percent of the standard deviation of test scores across school/grade cohorts. …

We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with … whose catchment school is locally top-ranked according to test scores, greater choice is of no direct benefit; however …, students whose catchment school is locally lowest-ranked earn higher scores when they have access to better local schools …

; and by creating incentives for school managers to increase effort in order to attract or retain students when faced with …

effect of reducing the length of high school on labour market outcomes for high school graduates. In 1999, the Ontario … created two cohorts of students who graduated from high school together with different amounts of education, thus making it … possible to identify the effect of one extra year of high school education on earnings. Using restricted survey data, the …