student outcomes like achievement and teachers' evaluations of their behavior for Black and White students, findings appear to … be noticeably mixed for Hispanic students. This paper shows that a potential reason for the mixed findings for Hispanic … students lies in the fact that previous studies have not adequately accounted for the cultural background of students and …

larger and more heterogeneous groups. We randomized 24 schools to treatment and 24 schools to control. For students receiving … small-group instruction, we find that test scores increase by .06 SD. Moreover, the share of low-performing students … decreases by up to 25 percent. We find no impact on treated students in large groups. Classroom observations and surveys to …

before completion. Such students have higher test scores at the end of primary school after the regeneration. Gains are … well understood yet. I study how local schools affect the educational achievement of low-income students when their … neighborhoods. I built a novel database by geocoding all regenerations and linking them to administrative records on primary school …

administrative data of public primary and middle school students in one of the largest municipalities within the City of Tokyo …We evaluate the causal effect of class size (i.e., number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due … among students in a classroom. We find that class size reduction is effective to reduce class closure due to flu: one unit …

Shall we encourage students to work while in school? We provide evidence by leveraging a one-year work-study program … that randomizes job offers among students in Uruguay. Using social security data matched to over 120,000 applicants, we …. Students mainly substitute leisure and household chores with work. The earnings effect is related to the work experience and …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …. Finally, exposure to gifted students in school has consequences that extend beyond the classroom: it increases the likelihood …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …. Finally, exposure to gifted students in school has consequences that extend beyond the classroom: it increases the likelihood …

Very few studies analyze the long-term educational effects of private secondary school attendance while controlling for … socioeconomic status. In Québec, the second most populous Canadian province, twenty percent of students at this level are enrolled … Canada?s Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to estimate the average treatment on the treated effect of private school on the …

We examine the educational spillover effects of migrant students on local students' academic achievement in public … migrant students across classes within schools. We find that the proportion of migrant students in each class has a small, and … positive, effect on local students' test scores in Chinese, but has no significant effect on math and English test scores. We …

teacher characteristics on students' science achievement. My identification strategy exploits the feature that in many … education systems different science domains (physics, biology, chemistry, and earth science) are taught by different teachers …. The availability of students' test scores as well as teachers' questionnaires for each of these domains allows me to …