or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school … sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators …

standardized test scores. We do this by utilizing grade-level longitudinal data on Florida's school districts from the Florida … confounders of the causal relationship at the level of school districts, grades, and years. Our results indicate that the extent …

School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact … positively students’ performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional … accountable for not improving school quality. The results show that, on average, one point increase in a 0-10 scale index from …

Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of …

that students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year …. These achievement drops persist through grade 10. We also find that middle school entry increases student absences and is … associated with higher grade 10 dropout rates. Transitions to high school in grade nine cause a smaller one-time drop in …

I estimate the effect of class size on scholastic achievement using that schools are only in session during the school …