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 …

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 …

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

Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be … encouraged to complete high school in order to avoid competing with immigrant high-school dropouts in the labor market. I find …

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 …

of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that … instrumented by institutional features of school systems. Second, home-country cognitive-skill levels strongly affect the earnings …

schooling policies particularly those related to the level and distribution of school spending affect the distribution of worker … in achievement growth across states. Further, the three decade old movement toward reducing the variation in school … government policies toward school spending, as carried out in the past, have not ameliorated inequalities in incomes …

In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school … school characteristics had a substantial influence on black males' earnings and educational attainment measured in 1970 … southern-born blacks who followed behind them in school by just a few years …