In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high …. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to drop out before reaching the end of primary school …. These educators hope to avoid the negative attention that authorities direct to a school when its students perform poorly on …

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

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

The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference … findings indicate that many buyers are unaware of the relevance of school quality information and that real estate agents …

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 …

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 …

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