School districts historically approached conflict-resolution from a zero-sum perspective: suspend students seen as …, improved school climate, and find no evidence of increased classroom disruption. We estimate a 19% decrease in arrests …, including for violent offenses, with reduced arrests outside of school, providing evidence that RP substantively changed …

test scores of Spanish students enrolled in compulsory secondary education. We define school's composition in terms of the … average parental human capital of students at that same school. These contextual peer effects are estimated using a semi …Drawing on the PISA 2006 data set, this study examines the impact of school's socioeconomic composition on the science …

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational … methods in order to identify the role of these factors for different groups of students. Our results show that school and … supports actions addressed at improving both factors in order to reduce cross-country differences but also between students at …

We use a regression-discontinuity design to study the effects of double blocking sixth-grade students in reading and … mathematics on their achievement across three years of middle school. To identify the effect of the intervention, we use sharp … cutoffs in the test scores used to assign students to double blocking. We find large, positive, and persistent effects of …

Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance, the composition of students in schools, and school …This paper uses a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rules of the National Secondary Education Examination in … scores in private schools. Since test score disclosure has no impact on student composition and school observable inputs in …

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. …

PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … scores are associated with individual early school dropouts. It distinguishes between student and school factors and … estimates a model of the propensity to drop out from school between ages 15 and 18. The paper finds that PISA scores are a good …

At the end of middle school, many low achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school … programs, which may be a source of disappointment and eventually lead them to dropout from high-school. Based on a randomized … controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achieving students' aspirations can be made more realistic through a series of …

We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on … students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out … other subjects or attendance rates. -- library ; randomized controlled trial ; education ; development …

students’ academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations …, quantile regressions suggest peer effects to be asymmetric in favor of low-ability students, meaning that students with lower … of reducing stratification in educational settings. -- peer effects ; education ; PISA data …