other educational institutional features. Using data from the 2006 PISA survey, we study how central examinations affect the … allocate students to tracks and reward them on the basis of objective indicators, thereby reducing the impact of parental …

We analyse peer effects among students of a middle-sized Italian public university. We explain students’ average grade … definitions of peer groups, describing different kinds of students’ interaction, based on classes attended together or exams taken … instrument, the exogenous assigning of students to different teaching classes in the compulsory courses attended during their …

We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of differential school effectiveness between the publicly funded … and school effectiveness processes and thus, to account for selectivity issues involved in the comparison of the two … private sector and the public one, in a sample of 26 countries. This technique allows us to distinguish between school choice …

Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects … takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary school system and uses cohort-by-cohort deviations in immigrant … effects are heterogeneous, both in the type of immigrant classmates, and in the type of native students that are affected …

The objective of this paper is to highlight the effects of domestic work of girls, school environment and household … characteristics on their school results. From a probit model, the analysis indicates that domestic work favours, meaningfully, the … fact of repeating a school year for girls. Besides, the availability of basic services in schools significantly reduces …

influenced by the academic results of the school – ideally allowing only those institutions with good results to survive “in the …

university studies. The preliminary results confirm that failing to take account of the incoming quality of students may give …

survey looked at the issue of child labour and education within the larger context of family and school and included … interviews with 16 teachers/ school counsellors and 16 parents of the targeted children. …

School dropout has emerged as major hindrance to human capital formation in developing countries globally and efforts … are on to stem this. The present paper attempts to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest policies … to tackle the problem in India context by using field data and logistic estimation technique. Results indicate gender …