Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children … significant; the same applies to GPA and admission to upper secondary school. For test scores in Swedish language there is no … indication of improvement. An analysis of a survey of pupils supports the idea that the teaching as well as the classroom climate …

technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school …. There is little credible evidence on how one-to-one (1:1) computer programs affect learning outcomes among younger pupils …. We investigate how 1:1 computer technology impacts student performance in primary school in Sweden, using data from an …

changed the admission system of public upper secondary schools. Before the year 2000, students had priority to the school … the distribution of students over schools changed dramatically as a response to extending school choice. As expected, the …This paper studies the effects of school choice on segregation. We analyze the effect of a reform in Stockholm that …

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning … outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the … achievement of students who are as good as randomly enroled in schools ranked differently in their application. Enroling at the …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …

Urban school districts nationwide have increased within-district choice for families. In response, district … equitable for students to enroll in schools that are a good fit for them. These universal enrollment systems offer a one …-stop shop for students to learn about different options, submit applications, and receive and accept offers. Using the …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …

The idea that students benefit from same-sex teachers has motivated policies around the world aimed at reducing gender …

unobservable peer characteristics. Using data with repeated random assignment to university sections, we find that students … newly assigned student-peer pairs. Yet, students' own past performance and other observable characteristics are poor …

-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely … to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results. Treated children show …