We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

better measures of schools' contributions to student achievement. We show that while cross-sectional measures of school value … is a high year-to-year attrition in the student population, longitudinal measures of school value added are very robust … tends to be higher in highly "selective" (i.e. high drop-out) school environments …

randomized experiment, we look at the effects of having a female teacher on the math test scores of students in primary school …

Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more … probability that he drops out of high school, particularly among the most economically disadvantaged black males. Exposure to at … identification strategies, including an instrumental variables strategy that exploits within-school, intertemporal variation in the …

Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent … of being close to urban centres. Using schools' distance from main urban centres and population size in the school …

conditions of primary school teachers, matching them by the year they entered the profession.After showing that teacher …

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school …