(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …

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 … schools allocate weaker students to smaller classes and offer more remedial tutoring. Notably, parents provide more support to …

school. We show that students' enrollment intentions are very often inconsistent with their actual potential as revealed by …Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future … outcomes both in education and on the labour market. Yet few studies explicitly investigate whether students (and their parents …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …

remaining school years to provide students with a very similar core curriculum and the same overall instruction time. Using …Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental … aggregated administrative data on the full population of students, we find that the reform increases grade repetition rates and …