scores in the explanation of children's outcomes in the transition from elementary to secondary school in terms of initial … twice as important as the elementary school cognitive test scores for initial track placement in secondary school. In …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children … significant; the same applies to GPA and admission to upper secondary school. For test scores in Swedish language there is no … indication of improvement. An analysis of a survey of pupils supports the idea that the teaching as well as the classroom climate …

is that school outcomes and the propensity to repeat a grade are likely to be determined simultaneously. We address this … secondary school, although the effect of repeating at both times is, as expected, much larger …

groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find that school-starters benefit from exposure to second-graders in measures of …