Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

A central argument for school choice is that families value the freedom to exercise choice and can make wise decisions …. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations, which exploit over-subscription due to excess demand … to these results. We evaluate the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a school voucher plan providing public funds for …

combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

Attention to the quality of human capital in different countries naturally leads to concerns about how school policies … or level of resources in the schools. Neither do they appear to be determined by school policies that involve … compensatory application of resources. The conventional view that school resources are relatively more important in poor countries …

school enrollment figures in a perpetual-inventory framework to fill the remainder. The data refer to male and female …

and Hispanics are less likely to use computers at school and at work. The implications of these differences in school …

We evaluate the long-term effect of a “girl-friendly” primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression … non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start … school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed …

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 …

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 …