We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of … not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For … lottery numbers. Losing the admission lottery for one's first-ranked school affects the characteristics of the assigned school …

performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost … reduced school costs combined with strongly non-linear returns to female education. …

too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission …Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and … age. We find that attending the higher track does not affect cognitive outcomes at any relative age. For older students …

investigate the determinantsof university entrance for Dutch high school graduates in 2000, and pay particular attention tothe …-section data on the region of origin of the highschool graduate and the university destination region for first-year students with … behaviour of prospective students is governed by a negative distancedeterrence effect and a downward rent effect, but a positive …

This paper studies the effects of enrollment in an elite school on students’ achievement. We use that elite schools in … effects on achievement of students who just qualify for the highest academic track and positive effects on achievement of … students from the top of the baseline ability distribution. These results reconcile contrasting findings from previous studies …