Good Schools or Good Students?: Evidence on School Effects from Universal Random Assignment of Students to High Schools
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- Paulo Bastos & Julian Cristia & Beomsoo Kim, 2016. "Good schools or good students? Evidence on school effects from universal random assignment of students to high schools," Discussion Paper Series 1607, Institute of Economic Research, Korea University.
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Keywords
School effects; Universal random assignment; Peer effects; School inputs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2023-11-06 (Education)
- NEP-NET-2023-11-06 (Network Economics)
- NEP-URE-2023-11-06 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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