Class size reduction mandates are frequent and invariably justified by studies reporting positive effects on student achievement. Yet other studies report no effects, and the literature as a whole awaits correction for potential publication bias. Moreover, if identification drives results...

Digital payments and decentralized systems enable the creation of new financial products and services for users. One core challenge in digital payments is the need to protect users from fraud and abuse while retaining privacy in individual transactions. We propose a pseudonymous credential...

In this paper, I relax one of the common assumptions made in standard school choice problems by allowing students to rank not just schools, but school-cohort sized pairs. The intuition for this extension is the observation that a school at maximum capacity is not the same object, from a...

This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic backgrounds of students' households. Utilizing the administrative data of students from a city in the...

This paper describes a rigorous data collection process to find and verify the quality of what could potentially be high-functioning or high-performing schools accessible to the poor in three of South Africa’s nine provinces. A potential sample of ‘outlier’ schools is selected using...

School effectiveness is a challenge to stakeholders in education. Although several studies have examined this issue, adequate attention has not been paid to School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) strategies (advocacy, resource mobilization, resource control, communication and instruction...

This study assessed the TQM of public elementary school principals in relation to school performance in terms of quality instruction, staffing, facilities, and operations funding. The results showed that the school principals' TQM practices, except operational funding, had the lowest average...