Parents and students from different socioeconomic backgrounds value differently school characteristics, but the reasons behind this preference heterogeneity are not well understood. In the context of the centralized school assignment system in Mexico City, this study analyzes how a large...

While it is well-known that certain charter schools dramatically increase students' standardized test scores, there is considerably less evidence that these human capital gains persist into adulthood. To address this matter, we match three years of lottery data from a high-performing charter...

This study finds that approaching 10% of the variation in high school student achievement is explained by teacher effects in Australia. It uses data from the 2011 Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) sample of Australian Year 8 students to estimate achievement in mathematics and...

Increasing participation rates in pupil surveys has become an important challenge for empirical educational research. In this paper we investigate whether combining a monetary incentive with a personalised invitation to participate in a survey increases the response rate of secondary school...

In Kenya, it's almost common sense when one is asked about the best school around. The first thing that strikes in mind is a cursory comparison of school mean scores in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination which tie neatly with the number of government-sponsored...

This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has long-run impacts that are independent from underlying ability. Using data on the universe of English school students, we exploit naturally occurring differences in achievement...

This study sought to determine the relationship between students' achievement in BECE Basic Science and Technology (BST) and their performance in senior secondary science subjects. The study adopted correlational survey research design. The population for the study comprised all Senior Secondary...

This study examined junior secondary school home economics curriculum and students' cognitive thinking level in Benue State and its implication for quality education. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The sample for the study consisted of 310 students at the Upper Basic Level from 10...