secondary schooling. The measures of productivity explored are: propensity to quit and be absent, phisical oatput per hour, and … ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across … neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the …

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … data from the 1980 Census, we find that men who were educated in states with higher quality schools have a higher return to … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for …

income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative effects on … future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education …

attributable to the endogeneity of school and residential choice. In addition, Black schools' funding and staffing decisions were … made rather arbitrarily by a White government that was at best indifferent to the needs of Black schools. Large differences … in pupil/teacher ratios developed between Black schools, differences much larger than those observed in the United States …

using data where class size variations are truly exogenous. Second, Catholic schools have large classes and better … performance. Third, to the extent that class size matters, it is more important for disadvantaged children. Special education … function that maps the substitution of discipline for class size, which may explain why Catholic schools, with large classes …