social environment affects women's STEM choices as early as high school. Using administrative data from China, we find that …Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM majors and occupations, a gap that has persisted over time. There … exposure to high-performing female peers in mathematics increases the likelihood that women choose a science track during high …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

Marimasimbe Secondary School (Gokwe South – Midlands Province) taken as a case study. The research adopted a case study … show that the type of school leadership by the head, career guidance, teacher-pupil ratio, qualified and dedicated teachers … external factors are family socioeconomic status, school-community relations, distance or proximity to the school and …

effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a … favorable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the up- and downgrading of students between tracks after middle school … exposure to a less advanced school environment. …

feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between …' own academic ability in shaping curricular choices. The shift in revealed preferences over high school tracks enabled by …

This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism … graduate on time from high school at a higher rate. We also quantify the effect of a counterfactual and yet feasible …

books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …

individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap … in shaping curricular choices. The shift in revealed preferences on high school tracks enabled by the intervention …

We leverage the timing of pandemic-induced school closures to learn about the emergence of ordinal rank effects in … peer interactions during the first year of middle school - when students are still unfamiliar with one another …

unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost … entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in … reduced school costs combined with strongly non-linear returns to female education. …