school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … attendance rates two school years later from .56 to .60. These attendance gains were driven primarily by outcomes in treatment … consistent with the hypothesis that teacher effort and books are complements in education production …

family size on school enrollment of the first child. The results show that for one-child families, an additional child … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for …

public sector bureaucracies. Through a randomized trial in rural China, we study performance incentives rewarding school …

reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school … provide a comparable education to traditional schools. Estimating the effects of distance on academic outcomes, children prove …

This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression discontinuity quasi-experiments observed in the context of Romania …

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

There is much public discussion but almost no evidence on the effects of high school curriculum on postsecondary … education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the … courses in academic subject is small. One cannot account for the value of a year of high school with estimates of the value of …

between the return to education and measures of school quality is similar for blacks and whites. Since improvements in school … education. Holding constant school quality measures, however, we find no evidence that parental income or education affects …This paper estimates the effects of school quality - - measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, the average term length …