and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of class allocation on academic performance … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student …

years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …

years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …

This paper advances in the literature on the migration of college students, which is not very large in Brazil … undergraduate courses in Brazil may provide a new instrument of regional development. In this sense, if this process happens in less … favored municipalities, there will be a new element of attraction of students that will be qualified and may stay there …

students in grades 8–11, we find that rural students with broadband home Internet access are more interested in school and … find that students who are not dependent on a cell phone for Internet access and those with higher digital skills …, especially social media skills, rank considerably higher on the SAT. Rural students with broadband Internet access are able to …

Middle school is an important period of development for students. Middle schools in China are either separate schools … after grade six or incorporated in the same school complex with the elementary school. Students who attend separate … elementary and middle schools change schools more often than other students, and this additional school change can affect …

This paper studies the linkages between schools’ inputs and students’ performance in Latin America. We exploit the … and students’ performance in mathematics. First, this research shows that students’ characteristics and their environment … (i.e. sex, age and economic, social and cultural status of students and schools) explain close to 30% of the variation in …

Recession on the math and English language arts (ELA) achievement of all grade 3-8 students in the United States. Employing a … among school districts serving more economically disadvantaged and minority students, indicating that the adverse effects of … the recession were not distributed equally among the population of U.S. students. We also find that the academic impact of …

findings of the study showed that multiple measures assessments placed the majority of students higher in comparison with the … traditional placement exams. Student academic history in the courses that students were placed into shows no difference in course … success between students using multiple measures assessments and traditional placement exams …