standardized tests to control for students' ability. Ranking first in primary school compared to last results in an improvement of …Using panel data on Italian students from 2013 to 2019, we compare the effect of a student’s class rank to the effect … of class quality in primary school on subsequent academic outcomes. We propose a new strategy to identify the impact of …

effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country … outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment … dropped precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …

effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country … outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment … dropped precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …

skills observed between 1st and 2nd generation immigrant students is mainly due to both the negative performance of immigrant … children newly arrived in Italy, and the immigrant students' area of origin. Comparing the results across the different grades …. Overall, our results suggest the presence of a 'critical' age above which 1st generation immigrant students face a negative …

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 …

How students’ non-school inputs respond to ability grouping may explain the currently mixed findings in the literature … about the impacts of tracking. Using data from South Korea, where students are randomized into middle schools under the …-equalization policy areas, I find that under ability sorting, students’ demand for private tutoring, self-study time, and grade anxiety …

We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with …, students whose catchment school is locally lowest-ranked earn higher scores when they have access to better local schools …. Students in both groups benefit from increased school competition …

data from a school/classroom survey of almost 3,000 students conducted in 2010 in three Russian regions. The analysis … employs a student fixed effects method that estimates the impact of teaching practices used by students’ mathematics and … Russian language teachers on students’ exam results. To test for possible heterogeneous effects of practices in different …

and positive impact (0.24 standard deviation) on student learning for grade 6 …