Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely … in curriculum and the instructional behavior of teachers. To fill this gap, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which … peer-to-peer teaching and ability tracking. While peer-to-peer teaching improves learning among low-ability subjects, the …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of …

effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …

Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …-test score school inputs and outcomes regardless of the new principal's value added, but that brand new principals have a …

children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary school. Our paper studies the spill-over effects …

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 …

better measures of schools' contributions to student achievement. We show that while cross-sectional measures of school value … is a high year-to-year attrition in the student population, longitudinal measures of school value added are very robust … tends to be higher in highly "selective" (i.e. high drop-out) school environments …