Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …

Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably … find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of … students who get into a better school help their kids less with homework, and (c) kids who go to a slightly better school …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …