books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …

We examine the differences in an index of standardized test performance of urban private/public school seniors by race … exogenous variables to control for individual traits, family background, etc., we treat both student performance and school … choice as jointly endogenous in the context of a simultaneous equations model with a latent variable: school choice. We find …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

school-grades with a higher share of migrant students, while natives are not affected on average. These negative spill …

feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between …' own academic ability in shaping curricular choices. The shift in revealed preferences over high school tracks enabled by …

This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism … graduate on time from high school at a higher rate. We also quantify the effect of a counterfactual and yet feasible …

achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …

investigate whether children's propensity to join school and to drop out of school responds to transient shocks. We also …

, even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low …