school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

on unobservables. -- secondary school choice ; school quality ; instrumental variable estimation ; selection on …This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further …

Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …

. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality … is measured by the school's average achievement test score at age 12. Our results indicate that children in high …-achieving schools as an instrument for school choice corroborates the results. The robustness of the results points toward a causal …

We examine the differences in an index of standardized test performance of urban private/public school seniors by race … exogenous variables to control for individual traits, family background, etc., we treat both student performance and school … choice as jointly endogenous in the context of a simultaneous equations model with a latent variable: school choice. We find …