Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …-effects estimation. Students' own and peer GPAs and their attitudes towards economics have the largest effects on value-added scores. We …

This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using … in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find … material, teachers still matter substantially. The average difference in subsequent performance between students who were …

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

students in Chile. To address this gap, an anonymous survey was administered to students enrolled in General Education courses … at a major public university in Santiago (n=455 female students). Rape, attempted rape, and other types of sexual … factors for sexual violence in Chilean college students, and to begin to develop and evaluate theory-based programs to prevent …

In this paper we estimate relative age effects in academic performance using a unique database of students at Bocconi … and the oldest students within each cohort. Our data allow to control for potential selection issues as well as for … school children, we document that in university the youngest students perform better compared to their oldest peers …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …