public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but … the apparent impact is relatively small. Controlling for school choice using a supply-side instrument (school availability … at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …

the characteristics of students attending the school. As expected, central determinants of school choice are the distance …Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education … markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts for the endogeneity of school fees and …

This paper examines the effects of increasing the compulsory school leaving (CSL) age from 16 to 18 in Hungary using a … of elementary school in 1998. Identification is based on compliance with the age of elementary school start rule …. Compliance with the age rule creates a discontinuity in the probability of starting school under the higher CSL age regime around …

Students' competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including the individual school's effectiveness. Measuring … errors – which require the exclusion of schools with too few students tested – and taking into account the selection bias …

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … underlying causes of the native-refugee differences in school enrollment. We also analyze employment and marriage outcomes, as …

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … underlying causes of the native-refugee differences in school enrollment. We also analyze employment and marriage outcomes, as …

-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …

violence exposure over the academic attainment of secondary school students in Peru. However, we also study these peer effects … over a novel set of outcomes: internalizing behaviors and forms of violence at school. Our results show that being in a … classroom with peers exposed to domestic violence leads to increased dropout and school mobility rates; increased levels of …

available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the … consequences of failing to gain admission to one's first-choice secondary school in England. Our empirical strategy leverages … features of the institutional setting and the literature on school choice to make a case for a selection …