are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …

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 …

transmission mechanism for the origin-country school quality effects. It also assesses the empirical merits of two alternative … migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …

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

features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher … exacerbate estimation problems. However, some estimators are more robust across scenarios and better suited to estimating teacher …

School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact … positively students' performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional … accountable for not improving school quality. The results show that, on average, one point increase in a 0-10 scale index from …