Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …-test score school inputs and outcomes regardless of the new principal's value added, but that brand new principals have a …

three basic questions, as well as examining students' race/ethnicity and poverty status, summer learning loss to determine … closed its doors to students from mid-March 2020 to June 2021. During this time, instruction transitioned from face …-to-face to virtual, with students having three options for virtual instruction. In addition to individual KPS student data, the …

across similar Romanian towns, generating variation in school choice for local students, who compete for seats via test … scores. I find that more school choice results in increased sorting of students by admission scores across different schools …This study examines the impact of school choice on academic achievement. I use differences in the number of schools …

across similar Romanian towns, generating variation in school choice for local students, who compete for seats via test … scores. I find that more school choice results in increased sorting of students by admission scores across different schools …This study examines the impact of school choice on academic achievement. I use differences in the number of schools …

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 …

academic performance. We start by introducing a simple theoretical model in which students decide the optimal allocation of … using data from first year undergraduate students of economics in the academic year 1998-99 at the University of Ancona …

to School Survey (ATSS) administered to students and its School Staff Survey (SSS) — can improve predictions of … government school performance reflected in students Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks (ATARs), beyond predictions based on … reflect, wholly or in part, the more positive attitudes to school of successful students and their teachers, collinearity …

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 …

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who …

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 …