on unobservables. -- secondary school choice ; school quality ; instrumental variable estimation ; selection on …This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further …

Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic …

schools, value-added estimation and regression discontinuity design (RDD). Although based on somewhat different assumptions …, both methods allow us to evaluate the causal effect of private schools on the exit exam results in high school. We find …

Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is … the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has … takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch …