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 …

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However …

in school outcomes. However, our analysis also reveals that both measures, TET and TVA, positively affect the probability …

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 …

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 …

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 …