We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized … feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between … Bayesian model, we empirically document the interplay between variance reductions and mean changes of beliefs about students …

We study how a large household windfall affects sorting of relatively disadvantaged youth over high school tracks by … preventing relatively poor students from choosing a schooling career with higher out-of-pocket expenditures and higher expected … returns. The observed change in stated preferences across tracks effectively alters school placement, and bears a positive …

consequences of failing to gain admission to one’s first-choice secondary school in England. Our empirical strategy leverages … features of the institutional setting and the literature on school choice to make a case for a selection …-on-observables identifying assumption. Failing to gain a place at a preferred school had null to small impacts on short-run academic attainment …

This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism … in Mexico City. We find that providing students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds with feedback about … graduate on time from high school at a higher rate. We also quantify the effect of a counterfactual and yet feasible …

error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …

Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by … students. To assess the empirical relevance of this mechanism, we exploit cross-country variation in the PISA 2009 survey of … differences between private and state school regarding organizational features that are differently suitable for students with …

countries. In particular, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the OECD over the past ten … years reveals that on average female students underperform (outperform) males in maths (reading) test scores in most of the … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …

, we find that almost 70% of the 43-point increase (more than one standardized school year) in the PISA scores of first …-generation immigrant students in an environment with stagnant Swiss PISA results was due to changes in the individual background … characteristics of the new immigrants (direct effect) and improved school composition (lower shares of students who did not speak the …

structured and sequential decision process pupils engage with. Our findings show that, on average, the key drivers of the …

Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries … equality in educational achievement. There are several and very recent international surveys available measuring pupils …), the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Programme of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS …