Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) targeted substantial School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the … nation's "persistently lowest achieving" public schools (i.e., up to $2 million per school annually over 3 years) but … required schools accepting these awards to implement a federally prescribed school-reform model. Schools that met the "lowest …

dropping out of high school, a target of recent health policy efforts …

productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … to pay for school quality, and schools are subject to a class-size cap. The model offers an explanation for two distinct … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …

Substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap. Our results … within schools, and specific school and peer factors exert a significant effect on the growth in the achievement gap. Unequal … between grades 3 and 8. Moreover, non-random sample attrition for school changers and much higher rates of special education …

schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn while in school. This paper examines studies published between 1990 … and 2010, in both the education literature and the economics literature, to investigate which specific school and teacher … characteristics, if any, appear to have strong positive impacts on learning and time in school. Starting with over 9,000 studies, 79 …

This paper investigates the long-run impacts of court-ordered school desegregation on an array of adult socioeconomic … the neighborhood attributes, school quality resources, and coincident policies that prevailed at the time these children … 2SLS and sibling-difference estimates indicate that school desegregation and the accompanied increases in school quality …

In the 1960s and 1970s, many states introduced grants for school districts offering kindergarten programs. This paper … early education. I find that white children aged five after the typical state reform were less likely to be high school …