transmission mechanism for the origin-country school quality effects. It also assesses the empirical merits of two alternative … migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …

features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we show that the positive correlation between Catholic …

, the evidence points to greater use of such practices in state schools. Those practices are correlated with improved school …

educated parents while the opposite is true for private school enrolment. Moreover, girls are significantly more likely to be … school choice in Indonesia …