outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was …

eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are … effects in elementary school close the racial achievement gap in both subjects. We conclude by presenting four pieces of …

Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is … the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has … takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch …

received in childhood. We assess whether this is also true for schooling inputs. Using matched Florida birth and school … administrative records, we estimate the causal effect of school quality on the gender gap in educational outcomes by contrasting …-family variation in school quality arising from family moves. Investigating middle school test scores, absences and suspensions, we …

Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet random variation in school … schools. In this paper, I use random assignment from a public school choice lottery to test the predictive power of VAM … specifications. In VAMs with minimal controls and two or more years of prior data, I fail to reject the hypothesis that school …

We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative …