variation in school attendance, allowing us to remove self-selection bias. Despite large differences in teacher quality and peer … quality across these school types, we find little evidence of any relative benefit in attending an assisted school between the …

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 … between school variation in achievement, which becomes larger over time. Schools are more diverse and more segregated in the …

‘Gymnasium', as this school track starts at a very early age and opens the way to an academic career. The database is the German … after primary school. In a second step, we model dropping-out of ‘Gymnasium' in the following years. Students are more …, the influence of social origins seems to be weaker here than during the decision to enter this school type. We also find …

school in India. I use a standard binary choice logit model to estimate the e↵ect of income on private school enrolment after … controlling for school attributes and other household characteristics. I find that per capita income is the most important … predictor of whether a household chooses a public or private school. Using per capita consumption as a proxy for income, the …

A central argument for school choice is that families value the freedom to exercise choice and can make wise decisions …. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations, which exploit over-subscription due to excess demand … to these results. We evaluate the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a school voucher plan providing public funds for …