Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this … paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not … only on the average quality of peers in the class, but we further investigate which part of the ability distribution of …

Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed … private schools at the pre-university level, we find that attendance of private higher education institutions has increased …

With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the “feminization” of elementary school teaching is …