Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian … 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 …

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 … assumption. We propose different compromise solutions and discuss the resulting incentives in theory. The empirical relevance of …

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 …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

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 …

end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of self-productivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive …

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage effects, and positive permanent effects. Estimation results based on our …

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 …