The performance gap in math of immigrant students is investigated using PISA 2012. The gap with respect to non …-immigrant schoolmates is first measured. The hypotheses that first (second) generation students coming from (whose parents come from … tested on a sample of about 13,000 immigrant students. The estimated average immigrant-native score gap in math amounts to …

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …

We analyze the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lessons in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in … mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in Denmark, combining test score data with a …

-generation students and first-generation students who migrated before starting primary education. Second, we instrument the parental …

We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher …

We find a positive relationship between math attitude and students' math scores using data obtained from PISA 2012 and …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …

learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …

the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …

This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of … a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …