In many countries, college-bound high school seniors must pass a test or series of tests. In Israel, this requirement … incentives to high school seniors in an experimental demonstration program. As a theoretical matter, such incentives may be … pressure not to study. The experiment studied here used a school-based randomization design offering awards to all students in …

effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort themselves non …-randomly into school districts and school districts allocate money based in order to compensate (or reinforce) differences in child … abilities, which leaves estimates of school input effects likely to be biased. Using variation in education expenditures induced …

early, and schooling merely widens them. Additional university tuition subsidies or improvements in school quality are not …

differ when we use the RD design as the estimator for evaluating program impact on two key indicators: child school … failed to reveal any significant program impact on the school attendance of boys and girls were in the first year of the …

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany …, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school … robust and significant positive effects on educational attainment for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years …

I estimate the effect of class size on scholastic achievement using that schools are only in session during the school …

compelling. The recent abolition of Grade 13 in Ontario’s secondary school system provides a unique opportunity to measure the … benefits of an extra year of high school for high-ability students (those bound for college), rather than dropouts. I present a … main finding is that the estimated return to an extra year of high school in terms of human capital is small for these high …