School resources and individual responses: three essays in educational economics.

Summary The objective of this thesis is to study the interdependence of school resources and individual resources in the production of human capital. Through three case studies on French data, different methods are proposed to analyze the effect of educational policies while taking into account the behavior of individuals. The first chapter shows that priority education policies are likely to lead families, especially the most socially advantaged, to bypass the schools treated. These avoidance strategies are likely to counterbalance the effects of the additional resources on student results. The second chapter seeks to determine whether students' choices of direction are constrained by the local school offer. We show that the opening of a new lycée increases the proportion of students who continue their studies in the second cycle, particularly in the vocational stream. Finally, the third chapter shows that students take into account the contemporary information they have about their grades when evaluating the pedagogical qualities of their teachers.