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 …

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 …

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 …

one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … sheds some light on this issue by examining whether students' outcomes are affected when their teachers work in more than … teachers, ranging from 0.05 to 0.11 standard deviations. Low income students are also more negatively affected when their …

waves covering more than 1 million students in 32 countries. Using a difference-in-differences approach I find a positive …

This paper presents a small theoretical model to compare school systems that segregate students by ability ('tracking …') with comprehensive ones, which allow for mixing of differently skilled students into same classes. The outcomes of interest … are the achievement levels of weaker and better students, and the average achievement of all students. In the model, the …

closed its doors to students from mid-March 2020 to June 2021. During this time, instruction transitioned from face …-to-face to virtual, with students having three options for virtual instruction. In addition to individual KPS student data, the … three basic questions, as well as examining students' race/ethnicity and poverty status, summer learning loss to determine …