We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link … administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our …. Using school-level data on applicants' top-ranked programs for all admission rounds between 2016 and 2020, we implement a …

program modestly increased primary school students' non-cognitive skills in the short-term; these impacts on non …

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 …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …

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

the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …