Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … conducive to student achievement in well-developed systems but detrimental in low-performing systems. We construct a panel … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …

on student achievement in cross-country student-level analyses. Our results show that larger shares of privately operated … schools lead to better student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading and to lower total education spending, even …

in the level and equity of student achievement. Variations in skills measured by the international tests are in turn …

This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market …

grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. To identify the causal effect of structural school transitions …, we use student fixed effects and instrument for middle and high school attendance based on the terminal grade of the … moving from elementary to middle school in grade 6 or 7 suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year. We …

grade retention under Florida’s test-based promotion policy to study the causal effect of retention on student outcomes over …