We analyze the effect of school expenditure on children’s test scores at age 16 by means of an education production … siblings to control for various sources of input omission and measurement error bias. We overcome one of the main criticisms …

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 …

This paper studies school quality in the context of Norwegian compulsory schooling. I demonstrate that even when lagged … achievement is not observed, it is possible to construct informative value-added (VA) indicators of persistent school quality by …-experiments using variation from student mobility and changes in neighborhood school assignments indicate that the differences captured …