discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the student-teacher ratio by around 10% (from a base level of 22 students per … school environment from the students' perspective, but with the largest impact on aspects most weakly associated with better …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes …-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian 6th-grade dataset that tested both students and their teachers in two …

admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in …

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca’ Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students’ grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students’ personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

active and tend to be more performance oriented. Students, although showing a better performance, are less motivated in …

conditional progression schemes are effective strategies to select high-performing students. Previous work has mainly focused on …

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …