school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of …

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I … have better academic achievement, within-school short-run increases in peer achievement improve outcomes only at high …-achievement schools. Short-run (direct) peer quality accounts for only one tenth of school value-added on average, but at least one …

We ask whether failing one or more of the state-mandated high-school exit examinations affects whether students … graduate from high school. Using a new multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach, we examine simultaneously scores on …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …

information influences their school choices, thereby affecting schools' market outcomes. To explore these issues, this paper … information on school effectiveness -- at least as it is calculated and delivered by the SNED -- might not much affect school …

-teacher relationships as well as students' overall satisfaction in school, and lessens teachers' fatigue. We find, however, no effect on …

This paper provides the first causal evidence about how elected local school boards affect student segregation across … schools. The key identification challenge is that the composition of a school board is potentially correlated with unobserved … determinants of school segregation, such as the pattern of household sorting and the degree to which boards are geographically …

sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain lower bound estimates of the importance of school and commuting zone inputs … for education and wages. A school/location combination at the 90th versus 10th percentile of the school/location quality … distribution increases the high school graduation probability and college enrollment probability by at least .06 and .17 …