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 …

set out the comparison of similar students undergoing alternative progression rules, and to shed light on whether, and to … across curricular tracks, picturing at best - depending on the data employed - a marginal improvement for students in … academic schools. We instead find sharp negative effects of the reform in technical and vocational schools, where the students …

novice teachers are assigned to similar classes, whereas experienced teachers have better students located in better … environments. Hence, in order to match similar students and classes, we focus on pupils with novice teachers and discard those with … students' outcomes. Our findings are: (1) teachers' training substantially improves students' test scores in mathematics; (2 …

based on a representative sampling of over 1500 high-school students in Switzerland shortly before graduation. The findings … they offer. This can clearly be seen in comparison with high-school students preparing to study at another type of higher …

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 …

review the existing evidence and compile a longitudinal dataset covering inflows of international students into a number of … advanced economies. We then study the effects of various higher education policies on the inflow of international students … important tool to attract international students, and thus high-skilled migrants. …

We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and … behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on … changes in neighbourhood composition caused explicitly by residential migration amongst students in our dataset. The …