Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity … international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time … substantially between different school (ability) tracks and that additional instruction time significantly increases the within-school …

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity … international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time … substantially between different school (ability) tracks and that additional instruction time significantly increases the within-school …

mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP students than for LEP students. The overall language mix of LEP students … has little if any discernable relationship with achievement. For LEP students, having more LEP peers speak their mother …

This paper contributes to the economics of examination rules. We show how rational students reallocate their learning …

In this paper, I use a unique dataset linking administrative school data with birth records to quantify the importance … than teacher assignment for student achievement and also play a substantial role in the time students spend on homework …

This article seeks to measure the effect of bullying in math scores of students in the 6th grade of public (Nansel et … al., 2001). school in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil with the use of data from a survey by Joaquim Nabuco … Foundation in 2013. The methodology applied is Propensity Score Matching (PSM) in order to compare students who reported having …

, demographically-similar teachers can increase students' achievement. These studies have tended to focus on the role of race and gender …-similar teacher. The effect is examined separately for students who are native Spanish-speakers and students who are native English … achievement of native Spanish-speaking students, particularly in Science and English. However, once differences in teacher …

detailed information on students' language and math scores, their social integration, as well as on sociodemographic and school … integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of … immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity by using a novel measure of the degree of linguistic diversity in the …

initially low-performing students. Because passing the exam is mandatory to obtain a high school diploma, this translates into … reduced high school graduation rates that remain significant over time, permanently shifting a group of marginal students to …We exploit the assignment of exam form in a high-stakes Norwegian high school exam to estimate the impact of exam form …

In this paper, I evaluate potential side effects of the educational expansion in Germany on the learning outcomes of … today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …