public school system. Using data from Prova Brasil 2013, the identification strategy builds on the use of an IV approach, in … alternatively, in each quarter). The idea behind the instruments is that compulsory school enrolment laws generate variation in the … child's age at school entry, which, in turn, make the date of birth within the year an important determinant of educational …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

This paper presents the result of a field experiment on the effectiveness of non-monetary incentives on pupils …' achievement on a mathematical multiple choice test. Our sample consists of 2113 pupils of deprived and high-achieving secondary … and (iii) a delegation of choice over incentives. The effect of non-monetary incentives depends on pupils' socio …

experimentally. We executed a large and pre-registered field experiment that randomized students to deskmates within 195 classrooms … testing. Contrary to theory, our randomized field experiment thus provides no evidence for an effect of peer achievement on …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to more female classmates with less school absence and improvement …

We report results from a large-scale, pre-registered randomized field experiment in 159 Norwegian schools over four … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …

We know surprisingly little about the influence of race-blind school admissions on student outcomes. This paper studies … a unique reform where a large, urban school district was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill …-blind lotteries dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school cohorts. I show that race-blind admissions caused the more segregated …