Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … conducive to student achievement in well-developed systems but detrimental in low-performing systems. We construct a panel … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … conducive to student achievement in well-developed systems but detrimental in low-performing systems. We construct a panel … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …

international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. Using unique assessment … skills across countries, and these are strongly related to student performance. Results are supported by fixed …-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. Observed country variations in teacher …

unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we …

in the level and equity of student achievement. Variations in skills measured by the international tests are in turn …

(equivalent to over 93 percent of the world population) from 1950 to 2014. Our results produce strong evidence for a positive …, statistically powerful, and economically sizeable relationship. In our benchmark estimation, a one standard deviation increase in …

Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains … faster than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, we … construct a simple, formal model, which portrays learning as the result of a match between student skill and instructional …