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 …

degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …

: Higher mean student performance is associated with central exams, private school operation, and socio-economic background …

grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. To identify the causal effect of structural school transitions …, we use student fixed effects and instrument for middle and high school attendance based on the terminal grade of the … school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students …

formulation, but also with school autonomy in textbook choice, hiring teachers and within-school budget allocations. School …

tutoring relates to the transition probability to an academically demanding post compulsory school and the probability to … successfully pass through this school, controlling for the students competencies after tutoring, but before the transition. Using … more likely to fail in the selective school than students who had the same level of competencies without tutoring …

) 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 …

information on the public-private character of both operation and funding of each tested school. Across countries, public …