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 …

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies … whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …

to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students … both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina …

Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …

performance-based promotions could be an important tool for raising school quality. …

-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students would increase academic achievement …

-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students would increase academic achievement …

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 …

We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low …-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of …