and a potentially pathological sign. The distinction between needs and requirements provides a new and solid ground on … which we can discuss the quality of human needs, which is, according to Keynes, a key concept to define what the ‘economic …

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have … analysis is the first in the school valuation literature to examine property value responses to a value-added information shock …, which is of interest as this measure is less correlated with demographics than typical school quality measures. Unique to …

's probability of developing special educational needs in early grades. We find that starting school at a relatively older age …Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child …

information on the public-private character of both operation and funding of each tested school. Across countries, public …

enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of …

cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a … common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three types of school misconduct: (i) disruptiveness in class, (ii) homework … school, suggesting that experimental measures of cheating generalize to rule violating behaviour in naturally occurring …

school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school … students who apply to transfer from a nearby, predominantly-minority school district. Slots are allocated via lottery. The …

We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …