significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the … welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense … gives rise to some new ones. -- optimal taxation ; optimal family allowances ; hidden ability to raise children ; hidden …

positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …

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 …