I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …

-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 …

mathematics among early primary school children in Norway, a low testing environment. We examine two forms of testing, complex but …

involuntary school choice, using survey data and standardized test scores from field work conducted in Shanghai. We find that … in both Chinese and Mathematics. We also use parental satisfaction and parental assessment of school quality as …

The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature …. In this study we examine the relationship between Kindergarten attendance and the 7th grade school placement of children … citizens and children's later school placement. However, for children in immigrant households the reverse is true: later school …

evaluate the impact of attendance at pre-school programs on matched Year 3 nation-wide NAPLAN test outcomes in the domains of … pre-school domain effects as much as 10-15 points, mainly driven by the upper quantiles of the NAPLAN distribution. To … attained by children whose pre-school teachers had Diploma or Degree level (high) qualifications, identifying for the first …