end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of selfproductivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive …

end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of self-productivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive …

The great majority of studies on the effect of school quality on academic outcomes do not take account of changes in … student choices concerning effort if school quality, e.g. class size, changes. We show that empirical estimates of the "total …" effect of changes in school quality could be quite different from the "partial" effect holding other inputs (including …

This paper re-evaluates the effect of US public school competition on children's educational achievement based on a … large longitudinal school profile composed from the Common Core of Data (CCD at NCES). To reconcile the endogenous shift of … local competition measures driven by demand side sorting of households among school districts, I examine the changes of …

, which leads to worse allocations for high-school graduates who end up under-educated in less productive firms, while highly …

traditional role of education. We first apply a two-way fixed-effects wage estimation, a' la AKM, to the Italian private sector …

finance consumption while in school, (ii) providing insurance against uncertain adverse schooling or post-school labor market …