This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First … with both independent measures of teaching practice, as well as school productivity measured by student value added. Fourth …, private school teacher pay is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, and better-managed private schools are more …

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we … quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming …-person learning for longer periods than elementary schools (implying that younger children experienced less school closures than older …

' choices of school sector. We document four central facts. First, public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020 … driven by homeschooling rates jumping substantially, driven largely by families with children in elementary school. Third …

. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve …