its oversubscribed magnet schools. The district had previously integrated its schools by conducting separate admissions … cohorts. More segregated schools enroll students with lower baseline achievement and employ lower valueadded teachers … segregated schools. Ultimately, mandated segregation decreases student test scores and college attendance …

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and … that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these … differences between schools influence longer-term outcomes, especially outside the US. In this paper I study the value-added (VA …

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools …

In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the … factors in which institutions affect market integration more than market integration affects institutions. It was …

This paper examines the effect of trade integration and comparative advantage on one of a country’s institutions, which …

regions rich in marine resources differ from societies with a purely agrarian legacy in terms of institutions, cultural values …

The number of firm bankruptcies is surprisingly low in economies with poor institutions. We study a model of bank …. We show that institutions must improve significantly in order to yield a stable equilibrium in which the optimal number … of firms is liquidated. There is also a range where improving institutions may decrease the number of bad firms …

institutions. This paper shows how such institutions can emerge as a decentralized equilibrium. In a first stage, individuals …