opportunity to compare the effects of lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic on university students’ performance in Italy, Sweden …, and Turkey. We employ a difference-in-differences approach by exploiting the fact that Italy and Turkey experienced … national lockdowns, while Sweden never applied nationwide mandatory restrictive measures. We use administrative data from …

Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of … are far from insurmountable. -- school quality ; performance measures ; education incentives …

This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further … significant effects of attending a high-quality school, we cannot rule out that the estimates are not in fact driven by selection …