Canada?s Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to estimate the average treatment on the treated effect of private school on the … professional degree program. The econometric estimation of treatment effects is based on a particular entropy balancing algorithm …Very few studies analyze the long-term educational effects of private secondary school attendance while controlling for …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

Canada is recognized as one of the top 10 countries in secondary education according to PISA results. A particularly …

Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique … may continue to play a role in school discipline without harming the educational prospects of those sanctioned. …

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …

effects on learning or dropout rates but they do appear to have positive effects on the reputation of high school graduates …Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to … not internalize the externalities that are pervasive in school settings and as a result students typically devote less …

Canada?s Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to estimate the average treatment on the treated effect of private school on the … professional degree program. The econometric estimation of treatment effects is based on a particular entropy balancing algorithm …Very few studies analyze the long-term educational effects of private secondary school attendance while controlling for …

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 …

The school building is a built environment in the physical learning environment. How it is perceived by students …. All these structural breaks had influenced the ACT public school buildings as governance changes resulted in construction … of new school buildings with integration of concrete in the construction material and enactment of uniform building codes …

performers for each domain assessed (reading, math and science). Canada is unique by the very large size of students' samples … over the entire achievement distribution (SES gaps over nine deciles) for Canada and across provinces. The third research …