further suggest that the difference in the likelihood of admission is driven by candidates’ learning ability at primary school …This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number … different ages at school entry depending on whether they are born on December 31st or on January 1st, our estimates show that …

relation between class size and grit. Using data from follow-up surveys of Project STAR, we show that fourth-grade pupils who … effects of grit are far-reaching: students with higher grit have better grades at the end of compulsory schooling, are more … likely to graduate from high school on time and are more likely to take a college entrance exam …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

This paper studies how enrollment in an elite school affects elite-school students' academic achievement in Hungary … low-ability students' mathematics test scores two years after enrollment. School value-added estimates, which lie within …. Enrollment in a Hungarian elite school entails having academically stronger peers, a more-advanced, higher-paced curriculum, and …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …

Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of school closures on student achievement among displaced students … does not seem to direct students to higher quality schools after school closures. … and future cohorts in Sweden. In contrast to previous studies that only analyze the effects of school closures on …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …