Using the Thai PISA 2009 literacy test, this paper offers two contributions to the literature on
the achievement gap between students in urban and rural areas. The first contribution …

The efforts exerted by children, parents, and schools affect the outcome of the education
process. We build this idea into a theoretical model where the effort exerted by the three …

This paper confirms the existence of peer effects in a learning process with data from an
experiment. The experimental setting offers an insight into the mechanisms of peer …

When school quality increases with the educational standard set by schools, education
before college need not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public …

We embed the problem of public school choice design in a model of local provision of
education. We define cardinal (student) segregation as that emerging when families with …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (eg, health care,
higher education, public utilities), using a Hotelling framework, in the presence of sluggish …

This article develops and estimates an equilibrium model of charter school entry, school
input choices, and student school choices. The structural model renders a comprehensive …

This article investigates the extent to which exam performance at the end of compulsory
education has been affected by three major education reforms: the introduction of a quasi …

Nietzsche's Philosophy of Education makes the case that Nietzsche's​ philosophy has​
significant import for the theory and contemporary practice of education, arguing that​ some …

We develop a theoretical and computational model of school choice and achievement that
embeds information asymmetries in the provision of education. Because school effort is …