previously-estimated average effects to predict benefits. Moreover, it suggests that interventions that target all students would …

estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. However, the extant literature's focus on … number of school days between kindergarten students' fall and spring tests in the nationally representative Early Childhood … Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). The marginal effect of a typical 250-day school-year on kindergarten students …

students' ability and past achievement, I use instrumental variables that are derived from two allocation rules that partly … suggest that increasing instruction hours and reducing class size have significant effects on students' achievements. The OLS …

We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to … unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for endogeneity between absence and academic performance of students stemming … features of the data such as the random assignment of students to classes and information on the timetable of classes, which …

. We also analyze mobility of students to other schools of same or better quality. The results show that student's mobility … rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of the students who change schools go to a school of the same or worse … quality. Students with greater probabilities of changing to better performance (higher quality) schools are those pertaining …

Professional internships during college are a popular and often highly promoted activity among students. A major issue … with estimating the impacts of these programs is that students often take time away from their classes to participate, and … 442,000 students at 619 institutions of higher education in the United States, we are able to estimate the impacts of …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of U.S. higher education markets. Students who … default than students attending similarly selective public schools. Because for-profit schools tend to serve students from …-profit institutions. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given …