This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative …

education system has fostered the growth of a diverse tutoring market. In general secondary school, tutoring has become a social … expectation that leads teachers and students to shirk in school to devote more attention to tutoring. In basic education, teacher … pressure is a major motivation for public school students to take tutoring. In order to reduce the prevalence of tutoring and …

This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further … significant effects of attending a high-quality school, we cannot rule out that the estimates are not in fact driven by selection …