a novel large scale field experiment at university, where students are randomized into work groups based on their score …. Further analysis suggests that students exposed to creative peers become more creative, but do not adjust their overall study … effort. This is in line with the idea that creative approaches and questions of peers help students to master the study …

PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … estimates a model of the propensity to drop out from school between ages 15 and 18. The paper finds that PISA scores are a good … evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro …

This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with … individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap … in shaping curricular choices. The shift in revealed preferences on high school tracks enabled by the intervention …

This paper examines the effects of increasing the compulsory school leaving (CSL) age from 16 to 18 in Hungary using a … of elementary school in 1998. Identification is based on compliance with the age of elementary school start rule …. Compliance with the age rule creates a discontinuity in the probability of starting school under the higher CSL age regime around …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have …We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP students than for LEP students. The overall language mix of LEP students … has little if any discernable relationship with achievement. For LEP students, having more LEP peers speak their mother …

Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …