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 …

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

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 …

The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By … high-school grades is indeed 6 percent when obtained on central exams but less than 2 percent when obtained on local exams …

2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers leaving for other …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

market for school leaders. We show that pension borders greatly affect leadership flows across schools – for two groups of …

2002, we find that student achievement at the end of compulsory school is the main predictor of dropout and delayed … controlling for a full set of school fixed effects …

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 …