secondary school on subsequent first year outcomes at university. The duration of Iceland´s upper-secondary education was …

school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school … students who apply to transfer from a nearby, predominantly-minority school district. Slots are allocated via lottery. The …

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 … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed … disadvantaged if the school priorities are based on ex ante known (social) differences of the applicants. …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

-market participation and earnings. The reform did not affect ethical and political values or non-religious school outcomes. …

This paper studies the impact of compulsory schooling on in-school violence using individual-level administrative data … indicate that in-school violence increases. Effects concentrate among students with prior criminal records and their classmates …, with greater exposure to in-school violence leading to increased criminality at older ages. Dropout age reforms may alter …

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