Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications inEngland. This paper seeks to build … correlation with unobserved school and neighborhood quality, i.e. the role ofsorting into schools and neighborhoods of different … quality. We suggest a method ofcalculating school quality (how effective a school is in helping its pupils to avoid …

variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition to upper-secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth graders … a large pool of elementary school pupils. I find positive peer effects on achievement growth and no effects for peer …

most powerful factor raising teacher attendance is the attendance of thechildren in the school, and the most important …

effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort themselves non …-randomly into school districts and school districts allocate money based in order to compensate (or reinforce) differences in child … abilities, which leaves estimates of school input effects likely to be biased.[...] …

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent … ways that are not reflected by the usualindicators of disadvantage. School managers respond by adapting … quality. The paper argues thatbecause school processes and quality are affected by context, schoolimprovement in disadvantaged …

We describe a new and flexible framework for modeling school effects. Like previouswork in this area, we introduce an … empirical model that evaluates school performance onthe basis of student level test-score gains. Unlike previous work, however … possible nonlinearities in these relationships.Using data from High School and Beyond (HSB) and adapting the …