selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate …

that these effects are most pronounced for students exposed to school closings. Furthermore, students initially enrolled in …We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school …

school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … 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 …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic …

students who apply to transfer from a nearby, predominantly-minority school district. Slots are allocated via lottery. The … school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school … and particularly for male students. There is evidence male students are also more likely to vote. In contrast …

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based … on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings …

A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …