, even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low …

strategies. To explain the data, we introduce expectation-based loss aversion into a school-choice setting and characterize …

school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of secondary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …

This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in … lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black applicant pools. The change dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school …

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

) of Norwegian schools, where between-school differences are smaller than in the US. I find that VA indicators are able to … predict in-school performance without bias. Furthermore, VA is strongly related to long-term outcomes, and differences between … differences in school quality, rather than unobserved student characteristics. Analyses of teacher grades and exam scores suggest …

primarily are due to external effects (e.g., school competition), and not that independent-school students gain significantly …This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the … increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of …

outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school …Nationwide school choice and fixed per-student governmental funding provide incentives for Dutch schools to perform … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …