We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where … either intra or both intra and inter school performance of students in curriculum based tests. We find significant … improvement in test scores of private school students by 0.31 standard deviations when information on both absolute and relative …

We examine the differences in an index of standardized test performance of urban private/public school seniors by race … exogenous variables to control for individual traits, family background, etc., we treat both student performance and school … choice as jointly endogenous in the context of a simultaneous equations model with a latent variable: school choice. We find …

school progression from primary through secondary to post secondary schools in Pakistan. The study employs a sequential … of child school progression. Household income and parent's education are significantly and positively related to child … number of socio economic variables which capture or affect "poverty" are intimately related to the school progression …

This paper investigates the impact of instructional days on student performance. Because school year length is … endogenously determined, I estimate the causal impact of school year length through two quasi-experiments that exploit different … sources of variation in instructional days. The fi rst approach identifies school year length 's effect through weather …

-level census data and school enrollment data from 1911 to 1932, I find that reservations that sent a larger share of students to … off-reservation boarding schools have higher high school graduation rates, higher per capita income, lower poverty rates … distance to the nearest off-reservation boarding school that subsequently closed is used as an instrument for the proportion of …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …