to high school peers from elite educated families ('elite peers') plays in driving such a phenomenon in Norway. Using … register data on ten cohorts of high school students and exploiting within school, between cohort variation, we identify the … (SES) backgrounds. We show that exposure to elite peers in high school does drive enrolment into elite degree programmes …

during elementary school, but only among the low SES children. Consequently, the high PGS children experience the largest … achievement growth over the school years, even if they are born in socioeconomic disadvantage. While the SES gaps are partly due …

program modestly increased primary school students' non-cognitive skills in the short-term; these impacts on non …

We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic … academic performance increased their searches for e-learning tools more than higher-performing regions. Analysing school …-learning usage gap between academically lower and higher-performing regions.Exploiting the regional variation in school closure …

estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary … pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy is based on the fact that for this school Fe y Alegría conducted a … lottery to determine which students would be accepted onto first grade. We could prepare our estimates only for one school …

exclusion of poorly performing pupils. In England there were two phases of academy school introduction, the first in the 2000s … being a school improvement programme for poorly per-forming schools, the second a mass academisation programme from 2010 for …