We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who …

minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …

hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … cohorts of students in England ﾖ those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 ﾖ from age 11 to age 20. The findings suggest … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …

are not more positively selected based on their high-school outcomes, but they achieve higher college grades, sort into …

restricted to students in initial education following university studies and preparing an Associate, a Bachelor or a Master …