Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International …

-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

small schools experience the most detrimental effects. The effects appear to weaken over time, suggesting that part of the …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …

effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools, as in … Epple and Romano, 1998. An alternative configuration, with public schools offering a higher educational standard than … private schools, is also possible, in spite of the fact that tuition levied by private schools is strictly positive. In our …

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and … that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these … differences between schools influence longer-term outcomes, especially outside the US. In this paper I study the value-added (VA …