We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …

primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population - especially low-income and … intermediate inputs in education for treatment students. …

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on peer group effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second … as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. …

We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …