improves academic outcomes. We estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative data on a high … barely above and below high school admission thresholds. Results indicate that while peer quality improves significantly … evidence suggests that the returns to high school quality are driven by teacher quality, rather than peer quality or class size …

effects on educational attainment measured by high school completion, college entrance and completion. A new method developed …

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 …

issues by analyzing school district data from grades 3-8 for 2.5 million children linked to tax records on parent …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using within-school and …

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

strong students during treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a school intervention has been identified in …

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 …