lower secondary schools. Using three indicators of school attainment (number of years spent in lower secondary education …, we consider it the result of prior sorting mechanisms of individuals accross school districts, the evidence indicates …

We study the effects of disruptive peers within disciplinary schools. When regular instructional schools send … disruptive students away to disciplinary schools, removed students are exposed to highly disruptive peers. Using rich … administrative data on Texas high school students, we leverage within school-year variation in peer composition at disciplinary …

Any system of primary and secondary schools involves explicit or implicit mechanisms that ration not only financial but … sorting of parents and children into schools and classrooms. Three primary mechanisms are reviewed: (1) sorting that emerges … through residential location choices within housing markets that are linked to schools; (2) sorting that arises from parental …

knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … no synergy effects from teaching different students together. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a …