for applicants favored by affirmative action indeed show no gains in reading and negative effects of exam school … benefit from affirmative-action, a pattern inconsistent with mismatch. We show that Chicago exam school effects are explained … by the schools attended by applicants who are not offered an exam school seat. Specifically, mismatch arises because exam …

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 …

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … behavior in school. The grants did not impact parent or student behaviors. Notably, we do not find impacts of either …

We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test … from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high-school … graduation, college-going, and school-based arrests. These patterns are driven by the least advantaged students benefiting the …

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 …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

panel data on school enrollment from a comprehensive school-level administrative dataset. This is merged with detailed data … on Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) center location and founding dates. Using school fixed effects, we … estimate the impact of introducing a new ITES center in the vicinity of the school on enrollment. We find that introducing a …

family size on school enrollment of the first child. The results show that for one-child families, an additional child … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for …