We use a credible regression discontinuity design to estimate causal education effects. Pupils in the Swiss education … system had to pass a centrally organized exam that classified them into different levels of secondary school, and that …

We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility … between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is …

Stockholm. Before 2000, students had priority to the public upper secondary school situated closest to where they lived, but … from the fall of 2000 and onwards, admission is based on grades only. The reform imposed strong incentives for school …

This paper analyzes housing market reactions to the release of previously unpublished information on school quality …. Using the sharp discontinuity in the information environment allows us to study price changes within school catchment areas …, thus controlling for neighborhood unobservables. We find a substantial housing market reaction to publication of school …

both cohorts in regression models that control for variables commonly observed by researchers, such as student high school …

. Pupils who returned to school saw their learning time rise substantially, even conditional on observable and unobservable …In England, school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic represented a sudden but relatively long-lasting shock to … partial and voluntary return to school over this period. We find little evidence that children adapted to home learning over …

completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have …