Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher …

This paper employs a rich collection of survey and administrative datasets, including linked school-teacher payroll … data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of … compensation policies given to schools, and municipal contribution to school wage bills. Other things equal, municipalities tend to …

In our current challenging budgetary environment, school closures remain a potentially attractive choice. With a large … panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary …. Administrators may claim that low enrolments and high spending motivate school closures, but in Illinois, that is not the whole story. …

(baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …

We use New Zealand school board of trustees data to examine whether schools where parents have high rates of … probability that a school board proceeds to election, indicating parental willingness to serve as a school trustee. Similarly, we … homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association …