literature which indicates that peer effects cannot be estimated without taking into account the role of school decision makers …. We present indicative empirical evidence that gender peer effects in the Norwegian elementary school are conditional upon … the level of special education provided. …

variation in peer groups stemming from changes in bus routes across elementary, middle, and high school. Our results suggest … that student interactions outside the classroom—especially in adolescence—may be an important factor in the education …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and …

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 examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school …, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …

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 …

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 5771 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to …