-native achievement gaps, but we find evidence for a detrimental impact for less integrated migrants. …

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 … ; selectivity ; comprehensive school system ; education performance ; inequality ; international student achievement test ; TIMSS …

as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …

We know surprisingly little about the influence of race-blind school admissions on student outcomes. This paper studies … a unique reform where a large, urban school district was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill …-blind lotteries dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school cohorts. I show that race-blind admissions caused the more segregated …

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 … are associated with improvements in school culture, as measured by the quality of student-teacher relationships and … perceptions of safety at school. We find no evidence of trade-offs between students, with students benefiting even if they were …

and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using … these educational subsidies are smaller in Canada than in the U.S. On the other hand, immigration policies designed to admit … immigration policies, at least for the ethnic group (whites) considered in this paper. …

, and exploit within-school variation both within and across cohorts for identification. Our results show small negative …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …