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. …

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 … are associated with improvements in school culture, as measured by the quality of student-teacher relationships and … perceptions of safety at school. We find no evidence of trade-offs between students, with students benefiting even if they were …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …

schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate the academic and behavioral effects of being reassigned to a … different school and, separately, of shifts in peer characteristics. We rule out all but substantively small effects of … transitioning to a different school as a result of reassignment on test scores, course grades and chronic absenteeism. In contrast …

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 …

better educational outcomes: quality pre-primary education, quality teaching, accountability and autonomy of teaching …