The High Schools That Work school improvement initiative is the nation's largest comprehensive school reform model with … over a thousand schools adopting its framework. The initiative's premise is that all students can meet the demands of a …

schooling may have direct effects on students’ contemporaneous welfare. For instance, private schools may generate better … Spanish regions to examine how private schooling affects one domain of student wellbeing, satisfaction with education. While … suggests that while private schools may generate better educational outcomes, they do not necessarily maximize, and may even …

determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime …

Advocates for educational reform frequently call for policies to increase competition between schools because it is … argued that market forces naturally lead to greater efficiencies, including improved student learning, when schools face … competition each public school in the state faces from peer private schools spatially located within their local market area. We …

This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … Philippine Labor Force Survey support that family arrangement to tighten commitment between daughters and parents keeps a high … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is …

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … the 95% posterior interval for the effect of education on income. Thus, a violation of the strict validity assumption does …

welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational … education and had no significant effects on part-time vocational education or participation in other types of work … education (including college enrollment), which we replicated in this study, have been offset by increases in vocational …

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and …