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 …

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

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 …

characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …

public school districts in Missouri. We take advantage of the plausibly exogenous variation in pre-negotiated district salary … 3.7, suggesting the presence of significant market power for school districts, especially over more experienced teachers …

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 …

-test score school inputs and outcomes regardless of the new principal's value added, but that brand new principals have a …

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational … methods in order to identify the role of these factors for different groups of students. Our results show that school and …

value-added measures (VAMs) of teacher and school quality: the Hausman test for choosing between random and fixed effects …