overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries. …

student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To … circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student heterogeneity, we exploit variation within students across math and reading …

paper argues that schools can exploit this discretion by selectively retaining students to reduce class size which … potentially has important implications for public spending on education and affected students. To this end, I build a model in … which class size is subject to a class size cap, with teachers and school principals determining the share of students to be …

cohorts. More segregated schools enroll students with lower baseline achievement and employ lower valueadded teachers …. Segregation is further exacerbated by "white flight" as white students transfer out of the district after attending more …

's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students …

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …