), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random.We find that male …In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market … and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …

readmission, but since relatively few do so, these students end up completing fewer years of school and are approximately 10 … weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a … regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissed students are permitted to apply for …

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

school fees for girls, allowing for a comparison between program recipients and students who paid no tuition fees but were …Informal school fees – for uniforms, books, and other supplies – are substantial in developing countries, often several … increased female enrollment by 13% and the share of enrolled students who took the 9th grade exit exam by 11 percentage points …

This paper investigates the impact of high school quality on students' educational attainment using a regression … schools. Using data from rural counties in Western China, we find that attending a magnet school significantly increases … students' college entrance examination scores and the probability of being admitted to college …

We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at … university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West … German control group received formal and informal education in a free-market economy, while East German students did or did …

information intervention, gaps in intended college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20 …

characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it … teacher's students.The differences are large in magnitude and statistically significant. The year-to-year stability level of … students compared to teachers with initially lower performing students. In addition, some differences are detected even when …

representative survey of middle school students in China and focus on schools that randomly assign students to classrooms. Our …This paper examines gender peer effects on students' academic and noncognitive outcomes. We use a nationally … findings show that having a higher proportion of female peers in class improves students' test scores and noncognitive outcomes …