standardized tests to control for students' ability. Ranking first in primary school compared to last results in an improvement of …Using panel data on Italian students from 2013 to 2019, we compare the effect of a student’s class rank to the effect … of class quality in primary school on subsequent academic outcomes. We propose a new strategy to identify the impact of …

-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students …Social theories posit that peers affect students' academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big …' ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers increases students' ASC. These propositions have not yet been tested …

We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of … not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For … lottery numbers. Losing the admission lottery for one's first-ranked school affects the characteristics of the assigned school …

Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and often identify school pressure and concerns about their … futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of a selective school environment on … students’ mental health. Using a regression discontinuity analysis in the largest Norwegian cities, we show that eligibility to …

favorable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the up- and downgrading of students between tracks after middle school …Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of … misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of the tracking decision. This paper investigates the …

socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across … schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate the academic and behavioral effects of being reassigned to a … different school and, separately, of shifts in peer characteristics. We rule out all but substantively small effects of …

During the pandemic, many measures were taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Some of these measures, such as school … closures, directly affected students. Children from different backgrounds are likely to have different abilities to cope with …

relation between class size and grit. Using data from follow-up surveys of Project STAR, we show that fourth-grade pupils who … effects of grit are far-reaching: students with higher grit have better grades at the end of compulsory schooling, are more … likely to graduate from high school on time and are more likely to take a college entrance exam …

I study the effects of selective admission policies in the context of school tracking. Depending on the federal state … in Germany, either teachers or parents have the discretion to decide which secondary school track a child may attend … after primary school. Applying a differences-in-differences approach, I exploit variation in the implementation and …

composition, school level (in terms of peer quality) and school quality (in terms of added value). We find that students have …We estimate preferences for school tracks in upper secondary education in Hungary. We consider travel time, school SES … stronger preferences for school SES composition and school level, rather than school quality (which may be harder to observe …