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 …

minimum level of skills considered to be adequate for a student getting the high school diploma. We exploit the exogenous … school. We find that hidden drop-out increases by 8.6 percentage points; the effect is stronger for students with lower …

.2% of the disparities in cognitive score and 48.6% in cognitive impairment. Notably, school racial segregation (all …

This paper addresses the directions to follow when designing new educational systems and school-lowork transition … and families is needed to smooth the school-towork in the future. The duality principle is the basis for a strong …

This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed … religious schools exist, but we find that in most geographic areas school "choice" at the pre-university level is effectively … over time. Azhari (Islamic religious) school attendance at the pre-university level has increased over time as well …