(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a quot … effect on enrolment rates into higher education. We find that the reform had a small positive but statistically insignificant …

data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of … 2008-2010, immediately after territorial reform. We explore diverse responses by local governments in terms of proportion … redistribute funds from schools with high student-teacher ratio (S/T) to ones with low S/T. Nevertheless, the reform has changed …

This paper evaluates school choice at the compulsory-school level by assessing a reform implemented in Sweden in 1992 …, which opened up for publicly funded but privately operated schools. In many local school markets, this reform led to a …, and controlling for differential pre-reform municipality trends. We find that an increase in the private-school share by …