We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

. Consequently, broadband use in schools can either increase or reduce students' performance. This paper provides a model that shows … and on students' performance in the 9th grade national exams to learn how broadband use affects performance. We use a … broadband use in schools in 2008 and 2009 are detrimental for the grades of 9th grade students. For the average broadband use in …

mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP students than for LEP students. The overall language mix of LEP students … has little if any discernable relationship with achievement. For LEP students, having more LEP peers speak their mother …

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies … whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is … recommendations cause less grade retentions. The effect is mainly driven by students from better situated districts. This finding may …

remaining school years to provide students with a very similar core curriculum and the same overall instruction time. Using … aggregated administrative data on the full population of students, we find that the reform increases grade repetition rates and …

full population of students, we find that the reform increases grade repetition rates and lowers final grade point averages …

This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at …-in-differences models to analyse the performance of two cohorts of students in Italy: a cohort that has never been exposed to the pandemic … and a cohort that graduated in 2021. We find that the pandemic had a huge negative impact on students' performance in …

results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …

autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the … first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide …