. 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. …

-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we show that the positive correlation between Catholic …

nationwide and within-district school rankings. Using data from the universe of school performance from 2011-2016, we identify … from the terminal year of primary school. …

.16 percentage-point increase in private primary school enrollment. This roughly corresponds to 1 native child switching to private …

We consider the role played by school leaders in improving pupil attainment, going beyond previous studies by exploring … below headship level are associated, at least to some extent, with improved school performance in Single Academy Trusts, but …

-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students would increase academic achievement …

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 …