This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …

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 …

While cost savings is the primary motivation for the switch to four-day school weeks in many school districts, do these … school schedules save school districts any money? To answer this question, this study uses a difference …-in-differences analysis using a unique, self-collected longitudinal dataset of four-day school week use from 1999-2015 and National Center for …

states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel … data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in the provision of school resources. The effects are identified … using staggered timing of state elections. We find that rulers allocate more primary school resources in the years preceding …

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … in school districts. Moreover, the level of test scores, commonly used as a measure of school effectiveness, (while … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school …

We quantify the effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings. We use administrative data on the monetary …

In our current challenging budgetary environment, school closures remain a potentially attractive choice. With a large … panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary …. Administrators may claim that low enrolments and high spending motivate school closures, but in Illinois, that is not the whole story …

School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on … sufficient information. A school accountability scheme that rewards school performance will create incentives for pupil selection …

designated primary schools.Whereas the multi-school dicing policy involves randomly assigning previously ineligible pupils to key … elementary schools through lotteries, the policy of school federation led by elite schools consolidates ordinary primary schools … through alliance with elite schools. Moreover, the designated primary school for a residential complex can change from an …