We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … school investments are substitutes. …

This research examines whether teacher licensure test scores and other teacher qualifications affect high school …

-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school …

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …

mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …