books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …

group discussion and lecturing used in their school, including a battery of individual, teacher, and school controls, as … well as random intercepts by school. For robustness we use instrumental variables and methods to account for school …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …

Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school … age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between …-cohort variation in the age composition of different school cohorts, and through an IV strategy based on the discontinuity in the …

degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …

(i) six training sessions during school breaks, ii) exchange visits each term where teachers provided feedback to their …

-parametric corrections for potentially non-representative PISA samples, including bias due to Vietnam's large out-of-school population … school-level variables. Finally, Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions indicate that the gap in average test scores between Vietnam …