The 2010 primary school reform in the UK aimed at giving schools more autonomy and freedom from local council's control … academy or joining an academy chain. However, the majority of studies have focused solely on the impact of school conversion … impact of the two different models of school governance on students' achievement. We exploit an instrumental variable …

Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and often identify school pressure and concerns about their … futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of a selective school environment on … enroll in a more selective high school increases the probability of enrollment in higher education and decreases the …

variation in school attendance, allowing us to remove self-selection bias. Despite large differences in teacher quality and peer … quality across these school types, we find little evidence of any relative benefit in attending an assisted school between the …

(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …

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 … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits … for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw, unadjusted test score outcomes of schools are biased estimators of school … value added models which adjust school test scores for difference in the prior attainment of their intake produce unbiased …

had an even stronger impact on attainment. We find that the positive impact of better school quality on educational … family background. Parental education has had asymmetric effects, positive on attainment and negative on school returns …. Better school quality also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for individuals with poor family …