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 …

With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the "feminization" of elementary school teaching is …' effects on students' tracking outcomes. Germany tracks students at age 10 into more or less academic school types. I find … recommendations or school choice. Even when following students into middle school, no effects of elementary-school teacher gender on …

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short … schooling outcomes and, more so, for less able pupils. …

achievement, cognitive skills, self-esteem, teacher perceptions, or school grades when compared to either group. We explore …

students who volunteer for 3 to 6 hours per week. They were randomly assigned to middle school students, from a list of … potential beneficiaries compiled by school principals. Using original survey data collected from students, parents, teachers and … exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle …

educational and labour market outcomes of young people. Students with lower skills have lower rates of participation in further … education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …

school, but a higher probability for native pupils. Additionally, we find that grouping refugees with incumbents of similar …-relevant integration mechanisms for refugee pupils: language support classes, provided prior to integration into regular classes, and … is associated with a lower probability of grade repetition for lowerachieving immigrant pupils of the same grade and …

The role of school fees in achieving both allocative and productive efficiency in the delivery of primary education has … been a subject of intense debate. Building on a simple model that makes explicit the role of school fees in determining the … optimal level of parental participation to school governance, this paper contributes to the debate by evaluating empirically …

cognitive outcomes. We exploit variation in exposure to leadcontaminated toxic sites in Indonesia and estimate a two-way fixed …-6 kilometers from the site and were exposed before 7 years old. The learning penalty in numeracy is equivalent to about 3 years of … primary schooling in Indonesia for those who lived within 3 kilometers and 1.4 years for those who lived 3-6 kilometers from …