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 …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …

‘Gymnasium', as this school track starts at a very early age and opens the way to an academic career. The database is the German … after primary school. In a second step, we model dropping-out of ‘Gymnasium' in the following years. Students are more …, the influence of social origins seems to be weaker here than during the decision to enter this school type. We also find …

, whereas standardization of school systems is associated to equalization of opportunities, at the cost of lower performance … standardization of school systems affect the association between students socioeconomic background and academic achievement. I find … that achievement inequality is greater in countries with higher level of privatization of school system, which also drives …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …

identification, we exploit within-school variation in the gender composition because of policy-driven transitions from single-sex to … 1998 and 2003, by the city superintendent's Coeducational School Expansion Policy. We find that boys' test score dropped … examination. However, the negative effect disappeared when the school transition was complete. We find no effect on girls who were …