school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over the past two decades. Total weekly hours of full-time teachers have … risen steadily since 1983 by about an hour, and after-school instructional hours have increased 34 percent since 1987 … conjecture that the weak link between effort and compensation in most school reforms helps explain the lack of such an …

determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform … proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The … selective school system on student achievement. Previous studies analyzing this transition have typically used a value …

raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a …

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 …

School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures, but also … identifying the effect of specific neighbourhood and school characteristics on educational attainment, we focus on correlations in … final years of schooling among neighbouring children and school mates. We find a clear trend of declining influence of …

instruments must be specified at each level of education, and we suggest that different school reforms in Norway can serve as … suitable instruments. In particular, we exploit the staged implementation of a major reform in the comprehensive school system … upper secondary school and shorter programs at regional colleges, together with master?s programs at universities, have high …

We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … Italian secondary school graduates, interviewed 3 year after graduation. In these data, the impact of observable talent …