achieving schools and tracks within schools. A second set of results suggests that the stratification of schools by quality in …

the world. This paper describes a school-based randomized trial in over two-hundred New York City public schools designed … teacher behavior. If anything, teacher incentives may decrease student achievement, especially in larger schools. The paper …

Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in … unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm … coeducational school. While students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools benefit, most …

schools, although this literature cannot determine the relative importance of supply versus demand factors in generating this … during the summer of 2006 and collected detailed information on the specific schools at which teachers interviewed. We … document a substantial variation in the number of applicants per school, with some schools having fewer than five applicants …

The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America …'s only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED … schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student's environment through boarding is a …

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I … credibly estimate both (1) the effect of attending schools with higher-achieving peers, and (2) the direct effect of short …-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

stayers by luring the best students to other schools. This framework results in a simple formula showing that the "cream …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative …