that arrests of children and reported crimes involving children follow a different pattern: peaking during the school year … school year to show that this pattern is caused by school: children aged 10-17 are roughly 50% more likely to be involved in … a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase …

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

administrative to instructional spending and larger class sizes were observed, supporting the hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school … administration. For Switzerland, using a cross-sectional time-series panel of sub-federal school expenditure and size of classes, no …

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

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. -- high school dropout ; socioeconomic gradient ; student achievement …

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 …