determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform … proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The … selective school system on student achievement. Previous studies analyzing this transition have typically used a value …

improve student performance in East Asia. But other schooling policies such as school autonomy over salaries and regular …

We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the outcome of the trade off …

Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the relationship between the … type of high school attended (general versus technical; private versus public) and indicators of subsequent performance … type of high school attended greatly depends upon the family of origin and prior school performance. General high schools …

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 …

or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school … sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators …

and family background information and with characteristics of the school and class of the 15 to 16 year old respondents in …

There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this … paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of … immigrants. The analysis is conducted using probit analysis. Pre-school enrollment is found to vary systematically with parental …

British selective grammar school system, it would seem that the role of selection (ability tracking) in the school system … merits further investigation. This paper explores the inter-relationship between school selection, ability and educational … achievement. Our regression and matching results indicate that the most able pupils in the selective school system did do better …