knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … neither synergy effects nor interdependent preferences among classmates. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a … compromise standard which exceeds the standard from the low ability track. Moreover, if students with lower initial ability have …

This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed … religious schools exist, but we find that in most geographic areas school "choice" at the pre-university level is effectively … private schools at the pre-university level, we find that attendance of private higher education institutions has increased …

find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of … students who get into a better school help their kids less with homework, and (c) kids who go to a slightly better school …Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably …

This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from …'s New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary … education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …

Discontinuities in markets and technology as well as issues of performance are roiling the field of higher education …. Despite the profusion of educational and learning concepts, a comprehensive model for both explaining and testing for … of learning and educational processes. Next, built atop the Community of Inquiry framework and employing the typology for …

, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. We find strong and significant cognitive losses of students lacking the … resources needed to learn remotely; everything else given, they range from 25 to 70 percent of a school year. In Germany, Italy … and France, where tracking between schools starts earlier, digital gaps are strongly associated with school types. They …

Betthäuser et al. (2023) examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the learning progress of school-aged children … students' learning (Cohen's d = −0.14, 95% confidence interval −0.17 to −0.10). First, we successfully reproduce the main …

Betthäuser et al. (2023) examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the learning progress of school-aged children … students' learning (Cohen's d = −0.14, 95% confidence interval −0.17 to −0.10). First, we successfully reproduce the main …

This systematic review covers 56 studies that measure the effects of school closures on learning outcomes during the … developing countries (21) than developed ones (15). We find that a year of school closure is associated with learning loss … equivalent to 1.1 years' worth of learning and that school reopening mitigates these losses down to 0.5 years. With regard to …