characteristics on economic and social outcomes of students. The unique structure of the Add Health allows us to estimate these … or Hispanic does increase drop out rates among black students …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …

The study estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance for Hungarian grade four students using …). The study uses the control function approach, exploiting the exogenous variation in school starting age driven by the …, Mathematics and Science performance. -- Education ; student test scores ; enrolment age ; identification …

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short … initial conditions and with partial observability of the track choices at the start of high school. Forced track downgrading … effects on schooling outcomes and, more so, for less able pupils. …

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short … initial conditions and with partial observability of the track choices at the start of high school. Forced track downgrading … effects on schooling outcomes and, more so, for less able pupils. …

achievement, cognitive skills, self-esteem, teacher perceptions, or school grades when compared to either group. Reasons for the …

also show that students in London have more positive attitudes to education on average, but this is entirely accounted for …We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in … these attitudes depending on background: immigrant students have substantially and significantly more positive attitudes to …

students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey …We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying … of a substitution effect: the youngest students within a class e-communicate more frequently than relatively older …

within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases …This paper studies the effect of exposure to female and male "high-achievers" in high school on the long …-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the United States, we identify a causal effect …