education, one essential aspect is that “good” peers can potentially improve students’ academic achievement, career choices, or … student educational outcomes without exacerbating inequality therefore offer a promising basis for education policies. …

school environment may be especially important. This study contributes to the literature by examining the joint influence of … the parental background, the parental neighbourhood, and a compositional measure of the school environment, on the … Netherlands to study a complete cohort of school-going home-leavers, who were followed from 1999 to 2012. We fit cross …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to … effects on learning or dropout rates but they do appear to have positive effects on the reputation of high school graduates … not internalize the externalities that are pervasive in school settings and as a result students typically devote less …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …