We quantify the effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings. We use administrative data on the monetary …

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

School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we …

We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented … covered tuition independently of whether the chosen school was private or public. We find that vouchers increased the … school choice becomes available in a student's educational path. We find that the impacts of vouchers on PSE outcomes are …

School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on … sufficient information. A school accountability scheme that rewards school performance will create incentives for pupil selection …

This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …

states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel … data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in the provision of school resources. The effects are identified … using staggered timing of state elections. We find that rulers allocate more primary school resources in the years preceding …

While cost savings is the primary motivation for the switch to four-day school weeks in many school districts, do these … school schedules save school districts any money? To answer this question, this study uses a difference …-in-differences analysis using a unique, self-collected longitudinal dataset of four-day school week use from 1999-2015 and National Center for …

A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …