schooling quality. This paper evaluates the effect on student achievement of an important school input, schooling hours, and … students' ability and past achievement, I use instrumental variables that are derived from two allocation rules that partly … suggest that increasing instruction hours and reducing class size have significant effects on students' achievements. The OLS …

of the student body of the school, such as students' daily attendance, students in college preparatory classes, and high … trends of school effects on student achievement employing three national probability samples of high school seniors: NLS:72 …, HSB:82, and NELS:92. Hierarchical linear models are used to investigate school effects. The findings reveal that the …

of the student body of the school, such as students' daily attendance, students in college preparatory classes, and high … trends of school effects on student achievement employing three national probability samples of high school seniors: NLS:72 …, HSB:82, and NELS:92. Hierarchical linear models are used to investigate school effects. The findings reveal that the …

perceptions of safety at school. We find no evidence of trade-offs between students, with students benefiting even if they were …Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 … of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05 standard deviations over three years relative to other schools. Reading …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading … grading standards on student outcomes are relatively understudied. Using administrative data that links individual students …

Teachers are among the most important school-provided determinants of student success. Effective teachers improve … students' test scores as well as their attendance, behavior, and earnings as adults. However, students do not enjoy equal … school leaders and education policymakers, and how the tools of applied economics can help address those challenges. The …

. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality … is measured by the school's average achievement test score at age 12. Our results indicate that children in high …-achieving schools as an instrument for school choice corroborates the results. The robustness of the results points toward a causal …

attending traditional public schools is difficult because students who attend privately managed schools may differ in … schools. In Trinidad and Tobago, students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm that created exogenous … variation in school attendance, allowing us to remove self-selection bias. Despite large differences in teacher quality and peer …

This paper studies school quality in the context of Norwegian compulsory schooling. I demonstrate that even when lagged … achievement is not observed, it is possible to construct informative value-added (VA) indicators of persistent school quality by … adjusting exam scores for students' background characteristics. These VA indicators show little bias forecasting average exam …