universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …

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 …

This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with … individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap … in shaping curricular choices. The shift in revealed preferences on high school tracks enabled by the intervention …

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 … students’ mental health. Using a regression discontinuity analysis in the largest Norwegian cities, we show that eligibility to …

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 …

This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market …

Colombia and the country s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and … based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database, the presented findings show that the vast majority of this gender …-related performance gap is explained by selection problems in the group of low-skilled and poor male students. In particular, the high …

(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …-achieving students and no significant effects among low achievers. Students in top tracking enjoyed multiple advantages, particularly a … concentration of high-performing peers and a very homogeneous classroom, that facilitated the teacher's work and increased students …

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 …

one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … sheds some light on this issue by examining whether students' outcomes are affected when their teachers work in more than …