teacher sorting. Furthermore, teacher knowledge and school resources appear to be complements in student learning … 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 …

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child …'s probability of developing special educational needs in early grades. We find that starting school at a relatively older age …

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

We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered … that midday meals have a dramatic positive effect on learning achievement: children with up to 5 years of primary school … implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems …

outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges … of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a …

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based … on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings …

conditional progression schemes are effective strategies to select high-performing students. Previous work has mainly focused on …

. Data on study efforts are derived from an electronic learning environment, which records the amount of time students are … economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments …. However, we find that impatient students obtain lower grades and fail final exams more often, suggesting that impatient …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students’ stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …