We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive …-school sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …

decomposition methods. Accounting for differences in socioeconomic background, we find that migrant pupils are just as likely to …

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 …

We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …

-way tracking. Their dropout rate is reduced by 15 percentage points (relative to a mean of 0.6). High-ability students are … students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students … students of low and medium ability gain on average 0.2 SD units of achievement from switching from ability mixing to three …

-way tracking. Their dropout rate is reduced by 15 percentage points (relative to a mean of 0.6). High-ability students are … students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students … students of low and medium ability gain on average 0.2 SD units of achievement from switching from ability mixing to three …

solving. We evaluate the causal effect of the intervention on the gender gap in mathematics in Italy with a randomized …

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive …-school sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …

Most integration programs transfer students between schools within districts. In this paper, we study Metco, a long …-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent … suburban districts. Metco increases the number of Black students in receiving districts dramatically. Because Metco students …