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.[...] …

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 …

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 …

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

secondary school tracks. Theoretically, the advantagesof CEEs are fairly undisputed. CEEs make teaching and learning output …