features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

-grade cohort in the American Community Survey. Cohorts with more exposure are more likely to graduate from high school and earn …

8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for … equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods …

school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over the past two decades. Total weekly hours of full-time teachers have … risen steadily since 1983 by about an hour, and after-school instructional hours have increased 34 percent since 1987 … conjecture that the weak link between effort and compensation in most school reforms helps explain the lack of such an …

randomized experiment, we look at the effects of having a female teacher on the math test scores of students in primary school …