quality of public schools in the city of residence. The survey also provides detailed information on the household demographic … structure, income and parents? education. The empirical analysis indicates that the quality of schools is one of the driving … factors in the choice between private and public schools. The results are robust with respect to the particular quality …

had an even stronger impact on attainment. We find that the positive impact of better school quality on educational …. Better school quality also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for individuals with poor family … suggests that better school quality, measured by a lower pupil-teacher ratio, is a technical substitute to parental education …

Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students …