end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of selfproductivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive …

We analyze the effect of school expenditure on children’s test scores at age 16 by means of an education production …

. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality … is measured by the school's average achievement test score at age 12. Our results indicate that children in high …-achieving schools as an instrument for school choice corroborates the results. The robustness of the results points toward a causal …

Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …

schools. A detailed analysis of Egyptian students' achievements reveals differential effects of school types, notably being …

The great majority of studies on the effect of school quality on academic outcomes do not take account of changes in … student choices concerning effort if school quality, e.g. class size, changes. We show that empirical estimates of the "total …" effect of changes in school quality could be quite different from the "partial" effect holding other inputs (including …

School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on … sufficient information. A school accountability scheme that rewards school performance will create incentives for pupil selection … assumption. We propose different compromise solutions and discuss the resulting incentives in theory. The empirical relevance of …

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 …

life on school achievement tests are well-established, there is little population-based evidence from LMICs on the …