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 …

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 …

This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …

autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the … first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide … better measures of schools' contributions to student achievement. We show that while cross-sectional measures of school value …

adolescence in compulsory education. Employing an empirical strategy that compares students born in December (young-for-grade) and … expands our understanding of the non-academic impacts of school entry age policies on education and adolescent development. …This paper investigates the impact of the school entry age policy on adolescent risk-taking behaviors. The policy …

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 analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …