-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity for entry wages of upper secondary school teachers. In the cases …

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 …

examine its effect on students' scores on the high-stakes national exam which occurs at the end of high school - the … corrupt activities by public school staff, which was driven by financial incentives. These results match an unprecedentedly … high number of allegations of fraud and bribery against school principals, which earned the 2010 Baccalaureate the title of …

in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools. …

that arrests of children and reported crimes involving children follow a different pattern: peaking during the school year … school year to show that this pattern is caused by school: children aged 10–17 are roughly 50% more likely to be involved in … a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase …

enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of …

education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in line with some recent studies, we value school quality using … house prices. We, however, adopt a rather different approach to other work, using a policy experiment regarding pupils …' choice to attend high schools to identify the relationship between house prices and school performance. We exploit a change …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …