We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … school investments are substitutes. …

We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … the children who start school later. In contrast, for the children who commence school earlier, we do not find any …-term nature. We hypothesise that an early school start achieves this by lessening the importance of resource-access inequalities …

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 …

Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We … employ a regression-discontinuity (RD) design using longitudinal administrative data to examine effects on high school …

optimally by municipalities. Individuals determine their education investment depending on the distance to the nearest school …

Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We … employ a regression-discontinuity (RD) design using longitudinal administrative data to examine effects on high school …

This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with … unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both … their primary and lower secondary school exam records, allowing three out of four assumptions imposed in standard value …

increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school … after the end of the program and outside of school, although at lower rates. The program also increased students' scores on …