To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...

The termination of universal primary education (UPE) led to an immediate reduction in the length of female education by 1.3 years in Kenya. With this quasi-experimental change, our paper identifies the long-term impacts of education on total fertility and child quality investment. One additional...

To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...