Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to … achievement trends. Even though, greater rigor and higher standards improve learning, parents and students prefer easy teachers … effects on learning or dropout rates but they do appear to have positive effects on the reputation of high school graduates …

Though the use of tracking policies to stratify students is commonplace, evi- dence concerning the effects of ability …-based tracking on student performance is mixed. Using rich data from the Hungarian secondary school centralized assignment mechanism …

This paper examines teachers’ mobility in response to exogenous changes in the credentials of their students using data … from Stockholm high schools. I explore a major admission reform that lead to the reshuffling of students between schools … school) rather than to other characteristics that are correlated with student quality (immigrant status, parental income …

Recently, technology has been increasingly integrated into higher education through gamified learning, which applies … students in the field of economics and business in gamified learning and to understand the relationship between engagement and … motivation in gamified learning, elements less studied in the context of economics and business higher education, as shown in the …

South Korean high school seniors’ performance in the college entrance examination and college attendance. The results with …-educational schools but not in raising four-year college attendance. We find no differences in academic outcomes of high school seniors … effects of single-sex schooling are heterogeneous across school ownership types and gender, indicating some interaction …

This paper examines the effects of high school de-tracking on Korean SAT scores. After accounting for the sample …: classroom effects from peer quality and teaching effectiveness, campus effects from school facilities and resources, and … changes. We also find that the negative effect of de-tracking is the strongest for students at the top percentiles of the …

Using data from seven cohorts of language immersion lottery applicants in a large, urban school district, we estimate … the causal effects of immersion on students' test scores in reading, mathematics, and science, and on English learners … grades, ranging from 13 to 22 percent of a standard deviation, reflecting 7 to 9 months of learning. We find little benefit …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …