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 …

, with older and lower-achieving teachers leaving the school, and new teachers joining the Sponsor-led school from …Low-performing, high-poverty, public schools notoriously struggle to attract and retain good teachers. This paper … 2000s, we show that the Sponsor-led takeover leads to substantial changes in the teaching body and the school personnel …

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 develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … high school graduation rate of the students who would remain in public school. We employ NELS:88 data to measure the …

source of identification of the Catholic school effect, at least in currently available data sets …

that would inject private-school competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming. Conditioning …. However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap the benefits of school competition without …

private school increases with both income and ability, and, among private schools, the propensity to attend the highest …-tuition school rises with both income and ability. Within private schools, tuition declines with student ability, with a substantial … stronger predictors of private school attendance as public school expenditure falls. Income becomes increasingly important in …

attend based in part on the expected economic return and net costs. In this paper we explicitly model high school students … estimate selectivity corrected outcome equations, using data from both the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class … of 1972 and High School and Beyond, which permit us to determine the effects of college quality on wages and earnings and …