variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are … correlated to changes in school quality, and school quality is an omitted variable, this identification strategy may fail. We …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time …

Education policy worldwide has sought to incentivize school improvement and facilitate pupil-school matching by … school system – the academy programme – which gave existing state schools greater autonomy, but provided limited information … on possible expected benefits.We use administrative data on school applications for three cohorts of students to estimate …

The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive … school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the …

substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … measure for the 1997 reform, we find that, on average, one additional middle school class increases the probability of … generated by the 1997 reform and the accompanying middle school class openings. The insignificance of the health effect may be …

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school … leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school …

reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the compulsory years of schooling from 6 … in more than 2,500 school districts, the extensions generated large exogenous variation in educational attainment at … different points in primary school while the overall school system and curricula remained unchanged. The reforms thus constitute …

We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of …