. In this paper, we study whether pupils in Primary schools in England with a wider range of school choices achieve better … between choice and achievement, but uncover a small positive association between competition and school performance. Yet, this … could be related to endogenous school location or pupil sorting. In fact, an instrumental variable strategy based on …

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 …

unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost … reduced school costs combined with strongly non-linear returns to female education …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time …

The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive … school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the …

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To … study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry … the same municipality, and whose birthday differs by a few days not only have their incentives to delay school entry …

school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of second-ary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …

We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility … between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is …

, even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low …