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

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 …

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 …

mathematics among early primary school children in Norway, a low testing environment. We examine two forms of testing, complex but …

While much empirical work concerns job tenure, this paper introduces the concept of school tenure - the length of time … one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort … longer own school tenure but suffer from that of their peers. Using the number of times the student moved school during the …

relation between class size and grit. Using data from follow-up surveys of Project STAR, we show that fourth-grade pupils who … likely to graduate from high school on time and are more likely to take a college entrance exam …