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

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low …

We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low …

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 …

performers on girls' high school placement outcomes. We disentangle two channels through which peers of either sex can play a … role: academic performance and school preferences. We also focus on the effects of peers along the distribution of baseline …