). Our focus is on children's school attendance, which is a precise, high-frequency measure of community functionality and a …, but is larger for secondary school students and students with a tendency to attend school regularly. Exploring the … reduction in school attendance that we observe …

We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School …) the My School website launch. We find scarce evidence of meaningful adjustments over time, but we do find evidence of … significantly different policies and practices across school groups …

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 …

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 …