schools and all pupils within these schools to analyse the role of the school in accounting for this variation. We analyse a … and attainment levels at the end of secondary schooling. We examine indicators that were the focus of the school … account for a minority of the variance in pupil attainment, and the extent of the variation accounted for by the school is …

examine the extent of potential grading inflation in courses taken during high school and how such differences vary across … student and school characteristics. Utilizing longitudinal, administrative data for the population of high school students in …'s high school grade relative to their score on the national standardized admission exam. We analyze differences in this …

Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique … may continue to play a role in school discipline without harming the educational prospects of those sanctioned. …

. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support to low-performing schools but has no …'s results suggest that to improve student achievement, a school accountability program does not need to set high …-stakes consequences that potentially induce unwanted strategic behaviors on the part of school workers. …

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 …

Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … in school districts. Moreover, the level of test scores, commonly used as a measure of school effectiveness, (while … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school …

and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …