Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably … find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of … students who get into a better school help their kids less with homework, and (c) kids who go to a slightly better school …

rural areas. This education expansion affected tens of millions of children who reached secondary school age in the late …During the Cultural Revolution China embarked on a remarkable, albeit temporary, expansion of post-primary education in … 1960s and 1970s. Exploiting the education expansion and variation across birth cohorts, we estimate the returns to …

"This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression discontinuity quasi-experiments observed in the context of Romania …

This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression discontinuity quasi-experiments observed in the context of Romania …

This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression discontinuity quasi-experiments observed in the context of Romania …

workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among … workers' level of education and a large set of organizational practices aggregated into three domains: decentralization … education: no post-compulsory education, upper-secondary vocational education and train- ing, tertiary vocational education, and …