) of Norwegian schools, where between-school differences are smaller than in the US. I find that VA indicators are able to … predict in-school performance without bias. Furthermore, VA is strongly related to long-term outcomes, and differences between … differences in school quality, rather than unobserved student characteristics. Analyses of teacher grades and exam scores suggest …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed … disadvantaged if the school priorities are based on ex ante known (social) differences of the applicants. …

education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. -- Basic and college education ; skill …

proposes that arguments for increased state spending in school education is expressively appealing as it appears equitable, but …

Banzhaf (2021), we estimate the capitalization of school redistricting in a generalized DID framework that incorporates … significant differences in both the capitalization effects and welfare changes associated with the school redistricting. …