organize teaching. Almost 70% of schools in the Netherlands are administered by private school boards, and all schools are … government funded equally. This allows school choice. Using an instrument to identify private school attendance, it is shown that … the Dutch system promotes academic performance. The instrumental variable results show that private school attendance is …

? Within FISs, are the motivations to send a child to a Christian school different from those to send a child to an Islamic … school? How well are FISs performing - along various dimensions—according to the students’ parents? This article provides …

-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we show that the positive correlation between Catholic …

school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of …

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I … have better academic achievement, within-school short-run increases in peer achievement improve outcomes only at high …-achievement schools. Short-run (direct) peer quality accounts for only one tenth of school value-added on average, but at least one …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …

involuntary school choice, using survey data and standardized test scores from field work conducted in Shanghai. We find that … in both Chinese and Mathematics. We also use parental satisfaction and parental assessment of school quality as …

Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze … whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to school outcomes. The study is based on teacher … larger when based on parents' SDQ scores compared to teachers' SDQ scores. According to our estimations, the school outcomes …