charity donations. In this paper I assess whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students … 11 has an insignificant effect on outcomes such as the probability of absence from school or of a police warning. I also … expulsion from school, as well as police warnings, suggests no adverse behavioural effect of performance targets, which is …

highly respected studies of school pupils’ academic achievement. English policymakers have been disappointed with school … this paper we provide new insight into the England – East Asia gap in school children’s mathematics skills. We do so by … thus conclude that reforming the secondary school system may not be the most effective way for England to ‘catch upâ …

base educational policies on the assumption that the performance of England’s secondary school pupils has declined …

school pupils in government schools in rural India. Incidence levels of six pedagogical practices, each representing a …. Estimates of their impact on low-stakes reading and maths test-scores are then generated using a school fixed effects value …

We develop and implement a framework for determining the optimal performance metrics to help parents choose a school … than choosing at random: a child who attends the highest ex ante performing school within their choice set will ex post do …