For decades, psychological research has examined the extent to which children's and
adolescents' behavior is influenced by the behavior of their peers (ie, peer influence effects) …

El objetivo de este artículo es examinar el estado de la educación superior en Colombia y
estimar los niveles de eficiencia de diferentes programas académicos de las instituciones …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward
effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the socioeconomic status (SES) school
segregation in Chile, whose educational system is regarded as an extreme case of a market …

This paper provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work on the Great Gatsby
Curve, the positive empirical relationship between cross-sectional income inequality, and …

This chapter summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the
elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Linear-in-means models find modest …

Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human
behavior, revealing how our identities—and not just economic incentives—influence our …

Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use
scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a
focus on the latter. Our assessment is that the evidence to date is not sufficient to warrant …

In this paper, we collect data on the inner-workings of 39 charter schools and correlate these
data with school effectiveness. We find that traditionally collected input measures—class …