Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

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 …

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 …

reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …

or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school … sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators …

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …

nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … situation where the public schools essentially were monopolists on all local school markets, the degree of privatization has … school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …