This paper contributes to what is known about the impact of school quality, by documenting its effect on the incomes of … Black South Africans, using data from the 1996 South African census and two national surveys of school quality. South Africa … provides an interesting laboratory for studying the impact of school quality on labor market outcomes. Under the Apartheid …

We present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of ending de jure segregation of Mexican-American school … to the Mendez court ruling based on school start age. Results point to a significant increase in educational attainment … for Hispanics who were fully exposed to school desegregation …

school-based arrests, and increase high-school completion, college-going, and college persistence. Schools that improve … social well-being have larger effects on attendance and behavioral infractions in high school, while those that promote hard … work have larger effects on GPA. Importantly, school SED value-added is more predictive of school impacts on longer …

. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job …

sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain lower bound estimates of the importance of school and commuting zone inputs … for education and wages. A school/location combination at the 90th versus 10th percentile of the school/location quality … distribution increases the high school graduation probability and college enrollment probability by at least .06 and .17 …

education. An implicit assumption is that more time in school may translate into greater earnings potential. None of these … literature, we examine the interaction between school quality and policy-induced returns to schooling, using temporally …-available school quality measures from Card and Krueger (1992). We find that additional compulsory schooling, via either schooling or …

This paper examines the impact of school shootings on the educational performance and long-term health consequences of … may play a role in explaining any such effect, and school expenditures, which may counteract it. We analyze national …, school-district level data and additional school-level data from Connecticut in this part of the analysis. In terms of …