of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

We examine the effect of air pollution on school absences using unique administrative data for elementary and middle … school children in the 39 largest school districts in Texas. These data are merged with information from monitors maintained … variations in pollution within school-year-attendance period cells. We find that high levels of carbon monoxide (CO …

and school-by-grade fixed effects in addition to observable family and school characteristics. The analysis also addresses …. Moreover, students throughout the school test score distribution appear to benefit from higher achieving schoolmates. On the …