We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility … between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is …

both cohorts in regression models that control for variables commonly observed by researchers, such as student high school …

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college … school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of …. The literature finds that the GED testing program distorts social statistics on high school completion rates, minority …

of schools implies, for a given number of pupils, an increase in average school size. We present evidence that in our …A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The … number of schools by 10 percent increases pupils' achievement by 3 percent of a standard deviation. A reduction in the supply …

This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the … increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of … independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes …

This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered … religious values. We investigate how household income, religious preferences, schooling costs, and school quality affect the … proportion of children sent to each school type. Using a unique dataset on secondary school age children from rural Bangladesh …

student-level and school-level explanations for this difference in Massachusetts. In an econometric framework that isolates … school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …-urban charter schools are uniformly ineffective. Our estimates also reveal important school-level heterogeneity within the urban …