these school-grade-year effects is achieved because students are mobile across schools. Peer effects are identified assuming …

students' academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations …, quantile regressions suggest peer effects to be asymmetric in favor of low-ability students, meaning that students with lower …

variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …

academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a … Language Learners in the student population for students between fourth and eighth grade over the period from 1999 to 2006 and … the potential effects of the presence of these students on the level of achievement in math and reading for native …

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980?s and the early 1990?s. …

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …