-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state examinations and the high-school GPA on later effectiveness. I apply …

regressions of student life satisfaction on school-level group discussion and lecturing, including a battery of controls and … random intercepts by school. For robustness we use instrumental variables and methods to account for school-selection. The …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

stringent requirements for the admission to the next grade at upper secondary school. We study how such effects are mediated by … changes in family and school inputs, and in the student commitment to learn all school subjects including those usually … activities out of the normal school hours in technical and vocational schools, but not in academic schools. Also, we find that …

Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and …

The paper examines whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students' subsequent …, affect their current effort in preparing for a test, and how previous performance affects the effort in teaching by a school …