matching to simulate a random assignment of students to teachers and estimate causal treatment effects. The evidence suggests … raising students' learning in reading or math than their peers at schools. Nonetheless, poorer children who were assigned to … status, seem to have had positive significant effects in reading, particularly for students living in poverty. This finding …

Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in … the US does not only affect related knowledge of students and adulthood attitudes, but also translates into high …

-cognitive skills (e.g. motivation, self-esteem, conscientiousness) of selected students. Our quasi-experimental evidence is drawn from …

and skills of 15-year-olds. For each survey, Canadian students placed well above the OECD average and remain among the top … performers for each domain assessed (reading, math and science). Canada is unique by the very large size of students' samples … specifically to 15-year-old students' educational achievement across Canadian provinces. The analysis estimates empirically across …