Asadullah, Mohammad NiazChaudhury, NazmulDar, Amit2014-04-152014-04-152006-06https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17821This paper presents new evidence on the impact of school characteristics on secondary student achievement using a rich data set from rural Bangladesh. The authors deal with a potentially important selectivity issue in the South Asian context: the non-random sorting of children into religious schools. The authors do so by employing a combination of fixed effects and instrumental variable estimation techniques. Additionally, the authors use the variation between two classrooms of the same grade within individual schools to identify causal class-size effects. The empirical results do not reveal any difference in test scores between religious and secular schools when selection into religious school is taken into account. Net of school fixed-effects, the authors do not find evidence in support of smaller class size. However, they document significant learning deficit by gender and primary school type: girls and graduates of primary madrasas have a lower test score even after controlling for school and classroom-specific unobservable correlates of learning.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOACCESS TO SCHOOLSACCESS TO SECONDARY EDUCATIONAVERAGE CLASS SIZEBASIC EDUCATIONBASIC NUMERACYCLASS SIZECLASS-SIZECLASSROOMCLASSROOMSCOGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENTCOUNTRY STUDIESCURRICULUMEDUCATION POLICYEDUCATION QUALITYEDUCATION SECTOREDUCATION SYSTEMEDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTEDUCATIONAL INPUTSEDUCATIONAL INSTITUTESEDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONSEDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIESELEMENTSEMPLOYMENTENROLLMENTEVALUATION OF EDUCATIONFEMALE EDUCATIONFEMALE ENROLMENTFEMALE SECONDARY SCHOOL ASSISTANCE PROJECTFEMALE STUDENTSFEMALE TEACHERSFURTHER EDUCATIONGENDER GAPGIRLSGIRLS SCHOOLSHEAD TEACHERHEAD TEACHERSHIGH SCHOOLHIGHER EDUCATIONHIGHER GRADEHIGHER GRADESHUMAN DEVELOPMENTINDEXESJUNIOR SECONDARYLABOUR MARKETLEARNINGLEARNING OUTCOMESLEARNING SKILLSLIFE SKILLSLITERATUREMAINSTREAM SCHOOLSMATERNAL EDUCATIONMATHEMATICS CURRICULUMMATHEMATICS SKILLSMINISTRY OF EDUCATIONNUMERACYPAPERSPARENTAL EDUCATIONPASS RATEPERFORMANCE OF GRADUATESPERFORMANCE OF STUDENTSPRIMARY EDUCATIONPRIMARY GRADEPRIMARY LEVELPRIMARY SCHOOLPRIMARY SCHOOL GRADUATESPRIMARY SCHOOLSPRIMARY-SCHOOLPRIVATE SCHOOLPRIVATE SCHOOLSPUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLSPUBLIC SCHOOLPUBLIC SCHOOLSPUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLSQUALITY OF EDUCATIONQUALITY SCHOOLSREADINGRELIGIOUS BELIEFSRELIGIOUS EDUCATIONRELIGIOUS SCHOOLSRESEARCHERSRETURNS TO EDUCATIONRURAL AREASRURAL CHILDRENRURAL PARENTSRURAL SCHOOLSSCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTSCHOOL ATTENDANCESCHOOL CATCHMENT AREASSCHOOL CERTIFICATESCHOOL ENROLMENTSCHOOL EXPENDITURESCHOOL FACILITIESSCHOOL FUNDINGSCHOOL GOINGSCHOOL GOING CHILDRENSCHOOL GRADUATESSCHOOL LEARNINGSCHOOL LEVELSCHOOL PARTICIPATIONSCHOOL PERFORMANCESCHOOL QUALITYSCHOOL REGISTERSSCHOOL SELECTIONSCHOOL STUDENTSSCHOOL SURVEYSSCHOOL TEACHERSSCHOOL TYPESSCHOOL-AGESCHOOLINGSCHOOLSSCIENCE STUDYSECONDARY CYCLESECONDARY EDUCATIONSECONDARY EDUCATION SECTORSECONDARY SCHOOLSECONDARY SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENTSECONDARY SCHOOL QUALITYSECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTSSECONDARY SCHOOLINGSOUTH ASIANSTANDARDIZED TESTSSTIPENDSSTUDENT ABILITYSTUDENT ACHIEVEMENTSTUDENT CHARACTERISTICSSTUDENT LEARNINGSTUDENT OUTCOMESSTUDENTS IN MATHEMATICSSUBJECT MATTERSUBJECTSTEACHERTEACHER CHARACTERISTICSTEACHER QUALITYTEACHER RATIOSTEACHERSTEACHINGTERMS OF STUDENT PERFORMANCETEST SCORES10.1596/17821